Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.
I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.
When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!
it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.
How often in life must one be content with what one can get!
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.