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.
To be alive at all involves some risk.
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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.
At home, you always have to be a politician when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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.
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.