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"It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now."
"We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."
"There's a lot of your family in tonight."
"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?"
"People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle."
"We go into the red next year... I shall have to give up polo."
"I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population."
"The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons."
"You have mosquitoes. I have the Press."
"Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance."
"There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before."
"So this is feminist corner then."
"You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?"
""It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." He later backtracked: "I meant to say cowboys.""
"I suppose I'd get in trouble if I were to melt them down."
"In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools."
"I don't know how they're going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield."
"The French don't know how to cook breakfast."
"No, I'd probably end up spitting it out over everybody."
"Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange."