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When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.
Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?
Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.
Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.
President Numeiri of Sudan is said to have remarked of Gadaffi that he was 'a man with a split personality - both of them evil'.
There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.
If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.
The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.
No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.
New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.
You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.
This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.
I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.
The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.
The Britain I know is the Britain of Jo Cox. The Britain where people are tolerant and not prejudiced, and where people hate hate.
When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.
I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours.
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.
God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best.
To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.
Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.
This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.
I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.
As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.
I'm one of these people that, once you have had your election and you have elected your candidate, let's see what actually happens.
Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!
I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.
If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.