A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

Things do not get better by being left alone.

The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.