Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.

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

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

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.