It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.
The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.
Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.
I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.
Don’t give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.
To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.
Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.
When I’m in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.
Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.
Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.
If Hitler invaded Hell, I’d find something nice to say about the Devil himself.
There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews.
Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.
When a new book appears one should read an old one.
There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.
We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.
Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.
Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.
He is like a female llama surprised in her bath.