It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
To be alive at all involves some risk.
You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
At home, you always have to be a politician when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.