News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

'The Beast stands for strong mutually antagonistic governments everywhere,' he said. 'Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.'

There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives'... …

The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world - that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Ma…

[Television is] a really dreadful influence on all of us. Don't ever look at local television news again. It's all crap. There's no news, there's no informatio…