A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.
Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.
Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers.
Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.
We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.
