A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!

When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.

the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.