"After you've met one hundred and fifty Lord Mayors, they all begin to look the same."

“You dress like a cad. You act like a cad. You are a cad.”

“It's the shortest one I know.”

“The Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her Colonial trade against foreign competitors.”

“I said to your predecessor: 'You know what they're all saying, no more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.' The fellow didn't even laugh.”

“My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.”

“After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.”