At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's lap. At the point when Bill Sikes was about to drown his dog to put the police off his track, Churchill covered Rufus's eyes with his hand. He said, "Don't look now, dear. I'll tell you about it afterwards."

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it