My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.