Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

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.

No matter what happens, you will always be Pack. Because you have that loyalty and restraint. Not human, not whatever, but Kate. Unique and different, but not separate.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days you see a change in your life.

If you want to do something then be the best.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

I'm so respectable I'm getting scared ... I must be doing something wrong.

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.