I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.