- “British women can’t cook” (in Britain in 1966).
- “What do you gargle with? Pebbles?” (speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance).
- “I declare this thing open, whatever it is.” (on a visit to Canada in 1969).
- “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” (during the 1981 recession).
