Quotations

Sound bites: October - December 2005

What is the secret of my long life? I really don't know - cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women.

Henry Allingham, born 1896, the oldest British survivor of the First World War

Sometimes it's better to lose and do the right thing than win and do the wrong thing.

Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, on losing the vote on the Terrorism Bill

You were the future once.

David Cameron, British Conservative politician, to Tony Blair

It's way cheaper, way more up-to-date. It doesn't smell as good, but otherwise we're a winner.

Bill Gates, American computer entrepreneur, comparing the tablet computer with a hard-copy encyclopedia

She sat down in order that we all might stand up - and the walls of segregation came down.

Jesse Jackson, American Democratic politician and clergyman, on the civil rights activist Rosa Parks

I haven't stopped being speechless.

Harold Pinter, British dramatist, on winning the Nobel prize for literature

Like playing Beethoven on the kazoo.

John Sutherland, British literary critic, on his translation of Shakespeare into text messages

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