My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.
So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human.
Your wife doesn't want to hear a word about how hot your mistress is, and vice versa.
You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.
I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.
The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.
Better a goat that can give milk than a cow that cannot.
People have always thought of me as a passer of the ball, but you can't just be that these days.
The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.
What a joy it is to dance and sing!
I'm an awful control freak at times when it comes to production and stuff like that.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Silence was never written down.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
