When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

Criticism in the body politic is like pain in the human body. It is not pleasant, but where would the body be without it?

Criticism may not be agreeable but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.