“Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.”

“I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly, or at medium speed. I either do or I don’t.”

“There's a kind of bad that gets so overpowering you can't even talk about it.”

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”

“People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.”

“The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.”

“A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.”

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”

“Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.”

“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.”

“Happy is the house that shelters a friend.”

“The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.”

“Weight control does have to be for a lifetime or you'll be yo-yoing.”

“I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.”