If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting - and whether or not we leaders agree.

The more you try to please people, the more they get control of you and you'll end up hurting yourself.

Be careful what you say...you might end up in my next book!

And when the mood took her to fall for the handsome young lawyer Will Bankhead, she happily threw over the man to whom she was already engaged.

We are no longer awkward younglings. Our enemies may be fearsome, but so are we. It is time we remind them of that.

Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.

The issues we address basically: We call for an emergency jobs program to address the emergency of climate change.

Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.