Two nations divided by a common language.

I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.