The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.

It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.

Adventure must start with running away from home.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

Dare, will, keep silence.

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

Little did I realize that my desire to add value to others would be the thing that added value to me!

People of different ethnicities are definitely not of differing species. Biologically speaking, people are people.

Tony Blair has always said he will be judged by history. Now Alastair Campbell is history we await his judgment.

I see now that true love isn’t fickle; it's what we put into it. If we work hard at loving someone, then no one can corrupt the love we have.

My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.