I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living.

- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.

- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith