There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.

Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.

It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.

[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if we don't give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don't use many.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.