We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow

My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot.

Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it.

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.

Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.

No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory

If all things are possible with God, then all things are possible to him who believes in Him.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

Sun of my soul, thou Savior dear, It is not night if thou be near. Oh, may no earthborn cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.