It is pretty tough to reshape human society in an after-dinner speech.

Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.