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 first maxim of English jurisprudence is that complainers should come into Court with clean hands.

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

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'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.