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.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

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

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.

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