Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers

I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the next.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.