If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'