If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Nothing is perfect on the human stage.

The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.