The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

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.

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

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.

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

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.