I never was good at personal abuse. I have got a good old-fashioned
oath when I am angry--a good old English oath, good enough for most
people--but that is only when I am very angry. And though we have been
told that this is the greatest crisis we have ever seen, unfortunately
I cannot get angry enough about it to abuse other people. But in the
circumstances, if I am put to it, I think I would quote Falstaff, who
said, "If any part of a lie will do me grace, I will gild it with the
heaviest terms I have."
_South Monmouthshire Conservative Association,
December 22nd, 1909._