If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.

There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.