In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.

Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.