The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.

God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.

Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected.

FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.

The worst thing about falling to pieces is that humans can do it so quietly.

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

A mother beyond compare Have a lovely day Mom

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

I've never not been famous.

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures.