[ To Anthony Eden about a long report from the latter :] As far as I can see you have used every cliché except “God is Love” and “Please adjust your dress before leaving.”

[ Replying to Nancy Astor’s saying “If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!” :] And if I were your husband I would drink it.

[ Of Bernard Montgomery :] In defeat unbeatable: in victory unbearable.

[ On his portrait, painted by Graham Sutherland :] I look as if I was having a difficult stool.

[ Describing Clement Attlee :] A sheep in sheep’s clothing.

[ Of Clement Attlee :] A modest man who has a good deal to be modest about.

It is not easy to see how things could be worsened by a parley at the summit, if such a thing were possible.

Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war.

It may almost be said, “Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.”

The government of the world must be entrusted to satisfied nations, who wished nothing more for themselves than what they had. . . . Our power placed us above the rest. We were like rich men dwelling at peace within their habitations.