"The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government."

“With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation.”

“I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.”

“To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise.”

Source : 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' (1747) l. 91

“There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by commercial firms that profit by supplying laboratory animals and equipment, have been able to convince legislators and the public that opposition comes from uninformed fanatics who consider the interests of animals more important than the interests of human beings.”

“American citizens should not lose their constitutional rights because they lack the money to pay for them.”

“An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.”

“Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.”

Source : "Sports Coverage? It's Not Cricket". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

“Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.”

Source : FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Jun 30, 2013