72 Quotes by Peter Jones

Excessive consumption was not seen as a desirable sign of membership of an elite, but as a warning: it was wealth for the benefit not of the city but of the individual, and it threatened to impoverish him too. Even more dangerously, if wealthy individuals clubbed together, who knew what damage they could inflict?...Wealth could too easily pervert one's judgement.

The Greeks would have found nothing democratic about our parliament, which fights popular scrutiny tooth and nail and where failed ministers, at the end of their term of office, far from being held to public account, are waved off to the House of Lords.

Most airlines will take the wine on board the aircraft and taste it, because red wine in particular can taste quite different when drunk in-flight compared to on the ground.

For us to be successful, we need more development in South/South trade and further integration.

It is a Christian heresy, and church fathers spent years dealing with this stuff.

Our office will conduct a vigorous investigation and an aggressive defense on behalf of Mr. Wesson.

I would advise drinking lots of water when you are flying to counteract the dehydration. This also affects your digestion of food and tends to slow it down.

The decision to raise interest rates will further hit the interest rate sensitive residential market, deepening and extending the downturn.

You have to restore law and order, and that's being done, and the (police) are in action on that.