Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Uncertainty is the normal state.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.