Bernard Levin Quotations

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.