November 10, 2025

Revolution: n., a bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

[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!

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.