Tony Benn Quotes

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

We cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead.

The 50s were great because I collected stamps.

Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail.

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.

The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.

Neither heat nor slow delivery nor gloom of mailers stays these [postal] rates from their swift rise.

The Queen of England opens every new Parliament by reading the government’s political program but no one asks if she even understands it.

My dad was a keen philatelist and, when he died, he left me an album he'd curated over some 40 years. He'd handpicked every item, saying each one reminded him of me. I opened it to discover the pages were full of beige stamps bearing the image of George V. Take from that what you will.

The United States Postal Service is overworked and under-funded.

Protecting the USPS means protecting the essential services it provides our nation.

If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights.

You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

He [Uncle Vernon] held up the envelope in which Mrs. Weasley’s letter had come, and Harry had to fight down a laugh. Every bit of it was covered in stamps except for a square inch on the front, into which Mrs. Weasley had squeezed the Dursleys’ address in minute writing. “She did put enough stamps on, then,” said Harry, trying to sound as though Mrs. Weasley’s was a mistake anyone could make.

Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.

There's a deep affection and respect for the Queen and the monarchy in the U.K. But Diana was an extraordinary, iconic figure and her death sparked a fierce reaction, part grief and part anger at her being taken away. It was very fraught.

Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen

Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer.