The British public sees with blinding clarity.

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.

They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.

I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

I am humble enough to recognize that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are.

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

My preoccupation has been from the very beginning that I believe that the "Brexit" referendum result is the most disastrous peacetime result that we've seen in Britain.

Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair.

The market has no morality

It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.

The very essence of love is love itself without any other expectation.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

The world's only lessons are tension and fear — relax into yourself.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Exterminate all the brutes!

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

Women don't realize how powerful they are

God gives us health so that we may serve the sick.

Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.