You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me.

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.

I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.

If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

They travel best in gangs hanging around like clumps of bananas thick skinned and yellow.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

I want to do other things like more fashion campaigns.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

"Women's fashion" is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

I love art and fashion.

Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show.

The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

There's never a new fashion but it's old.

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

In the last couple of years, fashion's gotten a lot safer. People are really pulling back.