Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

You're taller than I am, but I'm stronger, and meaner right this minute than you could ever imagine" - Lady Madelyne.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

There are no incurable ills.

This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.