Someone up there likes 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 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.

Faith in God is a blessed hope.

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.

The smartest move I ever made in showbusiness was to start off looking like the kind of wreck I would end up as. I was already aged in the wood.

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

I think the older you get, the more lax you get, and the less romantic you are.