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

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'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.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

There is nothing better in life than commitment to personal development and lifelong learning.

Taffeta phrases silken terms precise Three-piled hyperboles spruce affectation Figures pedantical.

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.

May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

Heaven is all around, Translated to sound.

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.