Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Beauty can inspire miracles.