Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

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.

The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.

I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?

She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.