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

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

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.

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

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

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.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.