There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.

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

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.