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

90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

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

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.