My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to…

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.

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

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...

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...

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

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.