Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

Never, ever ever ever ever give up.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.

The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.