British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.