I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.

I'm wearing this fake smile.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.

Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.

The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.

Man is an eternal sophomore.