Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.