You must look at facts, because they look at you.

...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

I love learning, but hate being taught.

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time.

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.