If you were to put that man on a moor with nothing on but his shirt, he would become whatever he pleased.

He was the first Chancellor of the Exchequer who ever made the Budget interesting. 'He talked shop,' it was said, 'like a tenth muse.' He could apply all the r…

I don't object to Gladstone always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve, but merely to his belief that the Almighty put it there.

I saw in the face of Mr. Gladstone a blending of opposite qualities. There were the peace and gentleness of the lamb, with the strength and determination of th…

And she had It. It, hell; she had Those.

'Winning is only important in war and surgery,' he said in 1975. A year later came another classic: 'They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven…

So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learne…