It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

Never run away from anything. Never!