Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

War would end if the dead could return.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.

Friends and fire didn’t go well together.

I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that.

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.

Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.