I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.

You do your worst, and we'll do our best.

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.