Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

“The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.” 

I always knew I was a star, and now the rest of the world seems to agree with me.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

I dress to kill, but tastefully.

We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

The bigger the better; in everything.

If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course

In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.

The show must go on.

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.

Get on your bikes and ride!