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

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

In a war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

The choice was clearly open: crush them with vain and unstinted force, or try to give them what they want. These were the only alternatives, and though each had ardent advocates, most people were unprepared for either. Here indeed was the Irish spectre - horrid and inexorcisable.

I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.

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