A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.