I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

Every single act of love, hate, or lapse of judgment may be the defining moment in a person's life.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.

I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.