If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

Love is a universal force, like gravity, that holds the solar system together and pours into our hearts as life-force - and gets expressed to us most beautifully by small children and animals.

The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.

Don't get impatient when it takes too long.

The bigger the 'why' the easier the 'how'.

Nothing but disaster follows from applause.

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot.