I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.