Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country…

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

No public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means; and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.