Emotions and Feelings

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

NANCY ASTOR : If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!

NANCY ASTOR : If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!

A sheep in sheep’s clothing.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

When I warned them [the French Government] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, ‘In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.’ Some chicken! Some neck!

Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

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

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

What is our aim? … Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

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

I do not know whether it was Chou dreaming that he was a butterfly or the butterfly dreaming that it was Chou.

Journalism largely consists in saying ‘Lord Jones Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,

A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread

Fools! For I also had my hour;

Fools! For I also had my hour;

From all that terror teaches,

I tell you naught for your comfort,

For the great Gaels of Ireland