When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.

They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.