What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting - and whether or not we leaders agree.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

There might be bits and pieces of us that I don't like or that drive me up the wall, but at the end of the say, it's who we are. I'm going to make the best of what we have.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.

First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen

I feel like a character actress - it's where I'm comfortable.

I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the pipes to just jump into musicals.

Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.

Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means?