Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.