To sit at one’s table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen – that is true happiness.
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all – there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.
I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.
The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.
The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.
We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.
Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 “at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel.” “Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for.”
Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.
Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved.
I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.
There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.
Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.
You must look at facts, because they look at you.
Nothing is perfect on the human stage...
How often in life must one be content with what one can get!
Nothing should be done for spite’s sake.
One can usually put one’s thoughts better in one’s own words.
Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty...