Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists....

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances.

I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.