He is not only remarkable but unique.’

‘We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow-worm.’

It is remarkable that the offspring of two such old libertines should have made one of the most famously long-lasting and faithful marriages in history.

offered the Presidency of the Board of Trade, making him, at thirty-three, the youngest member of a Cabinet since Hartington in 1866, and one of a select few who throughout the whole history of British Cabinet government have secured such preferment in their early thirties:

He was like a bird which was bound to beat its wings against whatever ceiling was placed above it.

sententious

Churchill lived by phrase-making. He thought rhetorically, and was constantly in danger of his policy being made by his phrases rather than vice versa.

trenchancy

What differentiated the system from slavery was that they were not bought or sold, and that they could return to China provided they could raise £17 (the equivalent of thirty weeks’ wages) for the return passage.