 We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. |
| To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. |
| Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. |
| If you're going through hell, keep going. |
| However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. |
| It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. |
| Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. |
| We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. |
| Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better. |
| Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. |
| If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. |
| My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. |
| Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. |
| I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks. |
| I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. |
| Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. |
| There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. |
| Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. |
| Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. |
| You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. |
