When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'

If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be the cause of the British Empire in India ... Our fight is hard. It will also be long ... But win or lose, we must do our duty. If the British people are to lose their Indian Empire, they shall do so with their eyes open.

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.