Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
Writing a book is an adventure.
If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.
I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.
An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.
It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.