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War never pays its dividends in cash on the money it costs.

Language is a great bridge.

The First Sea Lord moves the fleet. No one else moves it.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

You must look at facts, because they look at you.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

No technical knowledge can outweigh knowledge of the humanities.

The British people have taken for themselves this motto: 'Business carried on as usual during alterations on the map of Europe.'

Life, which is so complicated and difficult in great matters, nearly always presents itself in simple terms.

Honours should go where death and danger go.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

The recognition of their language is precious to a small people.

I never take pleasure in human woe.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past...

We must always be ready to make sacrifices for the great causes; only in that way shall we live to keep our souls alive.

Frightfulness is not a remedy known to the British pharmacopoeia.

It is no part of my case that I am always right.

Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do But this principle has its exceptions.

You cannot cure cancer by a majority. What is needed is a remedy.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am a prod.

Above all, my dear friend, do not be vexed or discouraged. We are on the stage of history.

Is [this coalition] to be above party Government or below party Government?

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Patience and good temper accomplish much.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

Craft is common both to skill and deceit.

I can well understand the Hon. Member speaking for practice,which he badly needs.

All wisdom is not new wisdom.

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

The usefulness of a naval invention ceases when it is enjoyed by everyone else.

God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

Great and impressive are the effects of contrast.

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.

The Hon. Member is never lucky in the coincidence of his facts with the truth.

The object of Parliament is to substitute arguments for fisticuffs.

Nationalization of industry is the doom of trade unionism.

[I object] on principle to doing by legislation what properly belongs to charity.

In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill.

Mr. Speaker, let us envisagean unpleasant and overworked word.

If you destroy a free market you create a black market.

The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

Let us learn our lessons.

--The British people have always been superior to the British climate.

Evils can be created much quicker than they can be cured.

The British Constitution is mainly British common sense.

One ought to be just before one is generous.

A fanatic is someone whowont change his mind, and wont change the subject

I can well understand the Hon. Member speaking for practice, which he badly needs.

My Rt. Hon. Friend [Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood] has not been long enough in office to grow a guilty conscience.

The maxim of the British people is 'Business as usual.'

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

In wartime, Truth is so precious that she should always be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

It's a long way to Tipperary, but a visit there is sometimes irresistible.

War is very cruel. It goes on for so long.

Chivalrous gallantry is not among the peculiar characteristics of excited democracy.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.

Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries.

One can usually put one's thoughts better in ones own words.

Bolshevism is a great evil, but it has arisen out of great social evils.

Time and money are largely interchangeable terms.

We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past...

I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Each one [of the neutral nations] hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.

When you get to the end of your luck, there is a comfortable feeling you have got to the bottom.

An announcement of a prospective surplus is always a milestone in a budget.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.

Well it may be said, well it was said, that the prerogatives of the Crown have become privileges of the people.

The furtherbackward you look, the further forward you can see.

Sometimes when fortune scowls most spitefully, she is preparing her most dazzling gifts.

soldiers must die, but by their death they nourish the nation which gave them birth.

Our task is not only to win the battlebut to win the war.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none ofthe vices I admire.

I think of France, anxious, peace-loving, pacifist to the core, but armed to the teeth

Kites rise highest against the wind notwith it.

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

It is not in our power to anticipate our destiny.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

How few men are strong enough to stand against the prevailing currents of opinion!

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

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