"As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill, As I came down the Highgate Hill I met the sun's bravado, And saw below me, fold on fold, Grey to pearl and pearl to gold, This London like a land of old, The land of Eldorado."

"As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree."

"A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me."

"It depends on each and every one of me."

"It is difficult to live up to one's posters…When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat."

"Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want."

"Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you."

"Every man is a potential genius until he does something."

"My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?"

"A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one."

"Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind."

"People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty."

"I have known for a long time now that Lennox is the best heavyweight since Ali and the world should now acknowledge that."

"Lennox is right up there with George Foreman and Muhammad Ali and he has proved himself the best heavyweight out there."

"Lennox is beyond doubt the greatest heavyweight of all-time. He is not second any more, he is there at the top of the tree. It reminded me of a young George Foreman and an elusive Muhammad Ali - everything you want in a fighter."

"In boxing, if you think you will lose..you're already halfway there."

"Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency."

"Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist. ."

"The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside."

"Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers."

"I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be."

"I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me."

"If I could fight anyone it would be Jack Johnson - he was so ahead of his time. I would like to have the opportunity to fight Tyson too and I'm sure it will arise if he can face me. I would not like to have fought Muhammed Ali as I have too much respect for him on a personal and professional level. Larry Holmes, Ali's ex-sparring partner, fought Muhammed Ali and hated himself after giving him an unnecessary beating after winning. The only reason he won was because of Ali's ageing boxing skills."

"My one, my one, my only love, Hide, hide your face in a leaf, And let the hot tear falling burn The stupid heart that will not learn The everywhere of grief."

"Turn on your side and bear the day to me Beloved, sceptre-struck, immured In the glass wall of sleep. Slowly Uncloud the borealis of your eye And show your iceberg secrets, your midnight prizes To the green-eyed world and to me."

"I, born in Essex thirty-four Essentially sexual years ago, Stepped down, looked around, and saw I had been cast a little low In the social register For the friends whom I now know. Is a constable a mister? Bob's your uncle, even so."

"To be so closely caught up in the teeth of things that they kill you, no matter how infinitesimally kill you, is, truly, to be a poet: and to be a poet in fact it is additionally necessary that you should possess the tongues and instruments with which to record this series of infinitesimal deaths."

"I do detest him, I really do. It's no joke. I can't stand him"

"Eubank has forgotten his roots. He is of African origin and seems to have forgotten that -"

"MR BROWN You know that the policy in Iraq cannot succeed. Democracy cannot be exported with a gun. You can be the Great Leader and the Great Peacemaker"

"Blair, don't send our young prince to your catastrophic illegal war to make it look plausible."

"Tony Blair: Military occupation causes terrorism."

"To be accused of ignoring my roots is pig ignorant. Collins's racist comment has focused my mind on the fight and I will beat him."

"In accordance to the way that Benn speaks, he is not educated. Sure, he's educated to a certain extent, but under different circumstances he would be a bouncer on some door in the West End and he'd have three kids from three different women … I am a superior person to that. I have finer points. So, superior in mentality, yes. As a fighter in accordance to the trade, yes"

"It would give me a terrific sense of satisfaction to be the man who sent both Eubank and Benn into retirement. Benn doesn't need me to tell him that he's over the hill because, deep down, he knows it."

"In accordance to the way that Benn speaks, he is not educated. Sure, he's educated to a certain extent, but under different circumstances he would be a bouncer on some door in the West End and he'd have three kids from three different women … I am a superior person to that. I have finer points. So, superior in mentality, yes. As a fighter in accordance to the trade, yes."

"He has unbelievable body punching power and is exciting to watch."

"I don’t know if I wanted to top myself or if I just wanted someone to hug me."

"I was always fighting from a young age… I wouldn’t back down, I knew Andy wouldn’t have backed down."

"I do detest him, I really do. It's no joke. I can't stand him"

"This is so personal it makes Chris Eubank look like an old friend of mine by comparison."

"(Men you respect most?) Sir Kenneth Clark, for his vast knowledge and his generosity of mind and heart in communicating it to an audience of millions, who will now become a little more able to accept art and give it a place of meaning in their lives."

"Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour."

"To anyone who is not an artist it must seem rather strange that Degas who could do anything — for whom setting down what he saw presented no difficulties at all — should have continued to draw the same poses year after year — often, it would seem, with increasing difficulty. Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs, it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers. He was continually struggling to achieve an idea of perfect form, but this did not prevent him looking for the truth in what might seem an artificial situation."

"Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. Degas liked it not only because it provided an accurate record, but because the snapshot showed him a means of escape from the classical rules of design. Through it he learnt to make a composition without the use of formal symmetry."

"Millet was one of those artists on whom a few formal ideas make so deep an impression that they feel compelled to spend the whole of their lives in trying to lever them out. Perhaps this is the chief distinguishing mark of the classical artist; certainly it is what distinguishes his use of subject matter from that of the illustrator. The illustrator is essentially a reporter, his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical artist from inside, and when he discovers confirmation of it in the outside world he feels that it has been there all the time. He must give to his subjects an air of complete inevitability, and this becomes a problem of formal completeness. That is why the classic artists, Degas no less than Poussin, return to the same motives again and again, hoping each time to mould the subject closer to the idea."