It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!