Responding to the question “If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?” That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini was in Hitler’s. It would be as ineffective to show weakness to Nasser now in order to placate him as it was to show weakness to Mussolini.

Anthony’s father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That’s Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.

If you’ve broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country’s promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements.

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini was in Hitler's. It would be as ineffective to show weakness to Nasser now in order to placate him as it was to show weakness to Mussolini.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.