New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

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.

Little things matter. Even a small tear wets the face.

Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you, " she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.

Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.

The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.