One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

I especially love my Moto Guzzi.

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

I love that our sport is sexy. I think it is appropriately so.

The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming's all that dreamers do.