Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

George Bernard Shaw

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

Derek Jarman

Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.

Henry Fuseli

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.

William Shakespeare

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.

R. D. Laing

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly.

Julian Barnes

We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.

Malcolm Turnbull

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

John C. Calhoun

The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.

Oscar Wilde

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

John Ruskin

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

Billy Graham