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

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

I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.