We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Science should be on tap, not on top.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.

The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.