Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.

If anyone tells me I'm fat, I say, - That's because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips

There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.

Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.

Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

It's a thrill to be a fan amongst fans.

A general must be shot or befriended - but never hurt.

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.