leading quotes

I am persuaded now that I have a better prospect than MrsThatcher of leading the Conservatives to a fourth electoral victoryand preventing the ultimate calamity of a Labour government.

- Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine
  On announcing his decision to stand for the leadership, Nov.

He passed rapidly through his marriages toVirginia Cherrill,Barbara Huttonand Betsy Drakeand filled inthe lonely gaps between them by falling in and out of love with most of his leading ladies, which, as his output of films was prodigious, underlined the excellence of his physical condition.

- David originally James David Graham Nevins Niven
  Of Cary Grant. Bring on the Empty Horses.

I can't tell who's leadingit's either Oxford or Cambridge.

-John Snagge
  Radio commentary on the Boat Race, when the engine of Snagge's launch broke down. Quoted in C Dodd Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race (1983), ch.14.

'We class schools, you see, into four grades: Leading School, First-rate School,Good School, and School. Frankly,'said Mr Levy,'School is pretty bad.'

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
 Decline and Fall, pt.1, ch.1.