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

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

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

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.

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.