He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

He was the only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.