April 30, 2025

A politician was a person with whose politics you did not agree. When you did agree, he was a statesman.

[On hearing Lady Mountbatten’s anti-monarchical views] How easy it seems for a semi-royal millionnairess, who has exhausted all the pleasures of money and position, to turn almost Communist!

[On Anthony Eden] He was not only a bore; he bored for England.