What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.
Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.
The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i. e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay". . . the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty.
I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.
[I believe in] the throne. . . parliamentary institutions. . . private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state. . . equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and. . . Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack.
The danger which threatens us comes from Labour. . . Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict.
No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.
It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.
Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.