Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to a licence to kill the offender,…

- Rex Murphy

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

- Rex Murphy

Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem.

- Rex Murphy

The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the we…

- Rex Murphy

Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.

- Rex Murphy

Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.

- Rex Murphy