A Yorkshire coal mine during the war was my first workplace. I was 18, and when I was called up, I thought I'd go into the RAF. But my number got pulled out of Ernest Bevin's hat, and I went down the pit as a Bevin boy to replace all the able-bodied miners who went to war.

Jimmy Savile

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Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without ha... by Jimmy Savile

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

too-much enough

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is pas... by Jimmy Savile

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

may way past

I don't drink. Never taken a drug in my life ever. In fact from a newspaper point of view I'm very boring. I don't do anything. I don't drink no booze, no drugs, no kinky carryings on, don't go to brothels.

drug taken views

I've never done anybody any harm in my entire life. No need to chase girls, I've thousands of them on Top Of The Pops, thousands on Radio One.

girl done needs

Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.

our-words credit men

Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind t... by Jimmy Savile

Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.

patterns mind men

A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by rep... by Jimmy Savile

A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.

use lost memories

I never got married anyway, because I wasn't particularly keen on accepting the responsibility of another person.

married accepting responsibility

I'm known in the trade as Litigiousness because, which means to say I'm willing to pull people into court straight away, no messing, thank you.

court mean people

Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.

unwilling dangerous men

The best Party is but a kind of Conspiracy against the rest of the Nation. They put every body else out of their Protection. Like the Jews to the Gentiles, all others are the Offscowrings of the World.

party body world

I have got a pretty good memory. by Jimmy Savile

I have got a pretty good memory.

good-memory pretty memory good

Nothing lasts forever. by Jimmy Savile

Nothing lasts forever.

nothing lasts forever

Royalty are surrounded by people who don't know how to deal with... by Jimmy Savile

Royalty are surrounded by people who don't know how to deal with it.

surrounded know royalty people

I applaud the health and safety people keeping an eye on things. by Jimmy Savile

I applaud the health and safety people keeping an eye on things.

safety health eye people

I don't watch soaps, because they're for regular viewers with regular lives, and I don't have a regular life.

lives watch because life

The first thing I ever won was a talent contest when I was ten ye... by Jimmy Savile

The first thing I ever won was a talent contest when I was ten years old.

ten-years old first talent

Everything I've done - 'Top Of The Pops,' 'Jim'll Fix It,' 'Radio... by Jimmy Savile

Everything I've done - 'Top Of The Pops,' 'Jim'll Fix It,' 'Radio 1' - all developed into legends.

everything legends radio done

A song tells a story. by Jimmy Savile

A song tells a story.

tells story song

Most newborn things are influenced by parents or even grandparent... by Jimmy Savile

Most newborn things are influenced by parents or even grandparents.

grandparents parents things newborn