Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

No one should waste a day.

The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.