Nothing is perfect on the human stage.

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.