He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

True education is the ultimate secret of a successful life.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking.

The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.

If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something has been won from reality.

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance

The way I feel about you will never change. Of course I love you—and there's nothing you can do about it!” “That's all I needed to hear.

When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. Thats just the way it was.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.