The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

- Bernard Levin

I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

- Bernard Levin

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

- Bernard Levin

Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will…

- Bernard Levin

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

- Bernard Levin

The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

- Bernard Levin

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a w…

- Bernard Levin

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

- Bernard Levin

Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, l…

- Bernard Levin