Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o’clock in winter and noon in summer.

I am massively constrained by my position at No 10.

This Prince of the Church reserved one of his rooms for cats, where overseers fed them chicken pates twice a day. When he died the overseers and cats were provided for.Cardinal Richelieu, who had dozens of cats, built a cattery at Versailles in which to house them.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.

Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.