Lapels Quotes

The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'