In Italy, for the same price as a typical British hamburger meal including sweet, a builder's labourer could eat like a king - rather better in fact, because pasta dishes gain from being kept simple.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdrawal. You’d think it would be less painful this way.

Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter.

Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.

Who spit in your porridge?

Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary

The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.