A joke is a very serious thing.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.

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

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.