“Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.”

“If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people”