E'Jéi Osborne Quotes

Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.

There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.

I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love you.

That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.

Surfeits kill more than fasting does.

I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.

What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.

I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause a consumption sooner in your poor estate, than that which is nearest your own.

They, and they only, advantage themselves by travel, who, well fraught with the experience of what their own country affords, carry ever with them large and thriving talents.

What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.

We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.

There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.

One big theme for me is that we have got to move from an economy built on debt to one where we save and invest in the future.

Why don't we save and invest in our future and start making the things that millions of Chinese consumers are going to want in the future.

I very much support financial education in schools.

The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.

There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many.

We support the auto-enrolment but we have our doubts about the way the National Pension Scheme is going to be structured.

No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.

Britain is China's best partner in the West.

I believe in public services.

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

I think you can look at the British economy with confidence.

You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.

Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.

Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

Even a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK or more.

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.