The unforgivable political sin is vanity the killer diet is sour grapes.

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.

At the dawn of light, darkness disappears.

If there is anything the devil will want to keep you from having, it is knowledge.

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

The body is a rock; the arms are snakes

It is beyond my apprehension.

But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.

Books are like my one and only joy.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.