The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

Make friends on your way up since you might need them on your way down.

The conservative movement is like a country club based in Washington, D.C.

We've said to the Iranians all along . . . we still remain open to diplomacy. But it's been very clear that the Iranians don't want to engage with us.

Jesus wept, but He never complained.

We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

If my mother hadn't thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton.

It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.

If I were to find something that is going to be more important to me than fashion - that would be work and love - then I probably would let go. That's a possibility. But fashion is an addiction.

If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play - if we want to change the world - we must first show up on the field to score.

We have enough to do just trying to make our company what we want it to be. As far as whether I would like to own Marvel, sure, I'd like to own Marvel.