It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.
Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.
When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.
Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.
I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.
Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.
Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people.
Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I’m already thinking glamour.
And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.
In the garden the door is always open into the holy.