Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no head.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

...you fall in love in three stages: lust, attraction and attachment.

Everyday, every hour, I have held you close in my heart.

Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

This man dresses like an unmade bed.

I love the broad margin to my life.

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game otherwise she'd make mincemeat of you.

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.