"The British character is a mixture of being very brave and very stupid."

"A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest."

"I am certainly not one of those who would be content to see the British Empire dissolved, its glory departed, and its people sunk in the squalor of a common European citizenship."

"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they've tried everything else."