[after accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman] You are a woman, aren't you?

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

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

I don't know how they're going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.

It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on.