“I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.”

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.

Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.

A period of silence on your part would be welcome.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.

If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.

Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.

The real test of one’s belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one’s friends but of one’s enemies.

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

There is a denial of the value of the individual.

I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.

The press lives on disaster.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Needle in a haystack, a small town on a roadmap, searching for you through the abstract- how incredibly hard to find.

Now more than ever I find happiness all around you.

I hope you find light in all the wounds once you felt dark.

I pray you to find a heart that would be way too big to love in any shallow way.

There is hope finding you and there is you finding hope.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

I often considered whether there could perhaps be found a more reasonable arrangement of circles.