I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters.

- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson Of Fleet

I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank.

- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson Of Fleet

Like having your own licence to print money.

- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson Of Fleet

As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with.

- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson Of Fleet

I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money.

- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson Of Fleet

I've got money so I'm a Conservative.

- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson Of Fleet

Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson Of Fleet