In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.