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‘Trying to maintain good relations with a Communist is like wooing a crocodile. You do not know whether to tickle it under the chin or beat it over the head. When it opens its mouth, you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.’
On a tour of Africa in 1907: ‘So fari – go goodi!’
‘We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow-worm.’
‘An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping that it will eat him last.’
‘I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.’
Nancy Astor: ‘If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.’ Churchill: ‘Nancy, if I were your husband, I would drink it.’
‘A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.’
‘Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.’
To Roosevelt on establishing the UN during the six days of the Yalta conference: ‘I don’t see any way of realizing our hopes for a World Organization in six days. Even the Almighty took seven.’
