No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

...the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation... this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.