Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died. A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there's no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.