I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

War would end if the dead could return.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

I look upon fine phrases as a lover. - John Keats

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you? That, in fact, can be done!” And—bang!

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money - they always bring happiness and strength.

You know that you’ve found something amazing, and you want to hold on to it forever; and every second after you have it, you fear the moment you might lose it.

All propositions are of equal value.

I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.