A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

He who fails to plan is planning to fail.

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.

If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.