(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.

I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.

The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty.

When it comes to saving England, Maggy is Ball's Deep

When I'm not paralytic, I like to play golf.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.

I once lost five years listening to a Pink Floyd album.

When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.