"Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions."

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

"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."

"One ought to be just before one is generous."

"I have never accepted the idea that we are in a position of inferiority to any other power in the world."