Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.

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.

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.

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

Eternal nothingness is okay if you are dressed for it.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.

I'm only interested in poetry.

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

It certainly is a very difficult group,. We're still bleeding after the Champions League final and want our revenge.

You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.