Andrew Neil

“If I had a pound for every former editor who hadn't cut the mustard advising me what to do, I'd be a very rich man.”

“Every house has to have rules - even 'Animal House.'”

“Whereas people increasingly get their news from the Internet, magazines have a different atmospheric to them. A magazine is something you sit down and relax with.”

“If 'Spectator Business' works, we will continue this brand extension strategy and look at everything from 'Spectator Arts' to 'Spectator Style and Travel' or 'Spectator Connoisseur.'”

“The sucking sound of capital being pulled out of Europe and into East Asia is almost deafening.”

“On the far left, just as there is on the far right there is a dislike of Israel, not just a dislike, a hatred of Israel.”

“I don't say for a moment that the far right is no longer a problem. We have seen the neo-Nazi nutters in Charlottesville in America.”

“Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.”

“If you're on the pull, a hen party gaggle, a gang of rowdy chavs or a group of braying snotty bottys, then Baros is not for you - which means it's just grand for the rest of us.”

“I'm proud to have played a major part in destroying Fleet Street, a corrupt cartel of unions and proprietors that operated against the public interest.”

“The old Establishment has always preserved its position by not being too exclusive - it has been wily enough to absorb the up-and-coming and convert them to their attitudes and mannerisms.”

“Memo to self: never again try to travel by train in Britain on a Sunday.”

“With growing economic prowess comes, of course, military power.”

“Many U.S. Sunday papers are monopolies, and their contents can be an extension of the daily.”

“I've got a house that's only 45 minutes from Monte Carlo.”

“This is the only country in the world where you can be criticised for trying too hard. That's a put-down in London.”

“When I was at Paisley Grammar we were equipped to compete with the private-school kids - and encouraged to do so. The sky was the limit, provided we had ability, ambition and a capacity for...”

“When one English person speaks, another one immediately classifies him. No class system in the world is so audible, which is also why it is so pernicious and enduring.”

“I recently passed through Mumbai airport. I cannot claim it was a pleasant experience. But if I had a choice between Mumbai airport and Euston on a Sunday afternoon, I'd take Mumbai any day.”

“With sad, depressing predictability, the children of today's underclass become tomorrow's criminals and dropouts.”