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

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.

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

She realized that her undiluted love had also given him the power to hurt her but she decided that spirit of the soul can always transcend the pain of the ego.

It’s amazing how fast you can write when there’s a gun to your head.

It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the US, but I didn't click with anyone.

Start, as parents, with yourselves, number one.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

I like people to look like they're floating.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.