There's no such thing as a good tax.

We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.