"I am certainly not one of those who would be content to see the British Empire dissolved, its glory departed, and its people sunk in the squalor of a common European citizenship."

"When I was younger, I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast."

"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."

"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes; it would spread a lively terror."