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.

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.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.

How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.

My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.

He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and sleep.