Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

I don't want a new purpose. I want what's mine. I want my birthright.

You are the prettiest flower in the garden of my love. As the moon longs for the night, my heart longs for your heart.

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

ʺThings are going to get worse before they get better, arenʹt they?ʺ

I just wanted to be a guy on the radio and I wanted to succeed, and I wanted a situation where I could be honest.

The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.