"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."

"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it."

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."

"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions - he had money, too."

"I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, as long as they do what I say."

"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim."

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

"You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive."

"I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end."

"To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches."

"Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus."

"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth."

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."