I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.

It is horrid to smirk.

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

She'll let you put her in her place, But she won't stand for anything worse than first.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

I don't know what God intends, or what qualifies Him to forgive me, ' Sobran said

To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?

Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.

The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.