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

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

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.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

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