“Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.”

“The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.” 

“By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.” 

“Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.”

“A queer and almost mad notion seems to have got into the modern head that, if you mix up everybody and everything more or less anyhow, the mixture may be called unity, and the unity may be called peace. It is supposed that, if you break down all doors and walls so that there is no domesticity, there will then be nothing but friendship. Surely somebody must have noticed by this time that the men living in a hotel quarrel at least as often as the men living in a street.” 

For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.”

“There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.”

“There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one’s grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.” 

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”

“The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.” 

It's kind of bizarre, isn't it? Having that kind of attention. I'm not under the microscope in the same fashion that a lot of the other cast members are, so I think I can slide under the radar a little bit more, but getting any attention at all is completely new for me.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

I dress to kill, but tastefully.

The bigger the better; in everything.

In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

Interview? Oh don't be ridiculous.

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.

If you see it there, darling, then it's there.

You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.

But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.