I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I'd go out to the Front at once.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)