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In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.

To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

Un pesimista ve la dificultad en cada oportunidad; un optimista ve una oportunidad en cada dificultad

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

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