You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

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.

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

God's justice is always perfect.

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

Don't make unimportant things important

On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.

Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.