I do not admire people who are wise after the event. I would rather be impaled on the other horn of the dilemma and be called one of the "I told you so's."

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

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

I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

In the twinkling of an eye I found myself without an office, without a seat, without a party, and without an appendix.