I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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.

We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until they become the veritable beacon oits salvation.

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

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.