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

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

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool

To be alive at all involves some risk.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.