Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

Two nations divided by a common language.

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."