An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Safari, so goody.

The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.