Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by David Frost

Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.

The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.

Being upbeat is the key to life.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.

Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.

You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably, the persona they choose is worse than their own.

For those of you haven't read the book, it's being published tomorrow

New York means many different things to me. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum, orange, hazelnut, chocolate marble, Italian, Boston, and of course, New York.

Now he's miserable and depressed.

British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp slowdown in the pace of economic activity,.

There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common language is Dutch.

When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake.

Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other.

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

What we are going to end up with here is two nations. That will create real resentment in the workforce.

The creed of the Inland Revenue is simple: "If we can bring one little smile to one little face today, then somebody's slipped up somewhere."

Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just vague theories, but ideas that New Yorkers have the will, and the clout, to do something about.

You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.