People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!

It's no use saying do this, do that, don't do that ... it's very easy when children want something to say no immediately. I think it's quite important not to give an unequivocal answer at once. Much better to think it over. Then, if you eventually say no, I think they really accept it.

Can you tell the difference between them?

A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.