Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set..

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter..

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa..

If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty's Forces, as they have so o….

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs..

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable..

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except tha….

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war..

Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips..

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed..

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts..

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement..

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize wh….

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact..

It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have m….

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living..

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today..

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance..

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough..

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away..

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very mu….