The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

The French cook; we open tins.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.