"The truth is that muggers are very interesting people." Daily Express, 11 May 1989.
"Calm down, dear: it's a commercial." Line from his advertisements for insurance company Esure.
"I don't want to live in a tolerant society. I want to live in a very intolerant society."
"Grumbling should never be well-mannered or under control. It should be full-blooded. It should be rampant." Daily Mail, January 2012.
"An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station." On turning down an OBE.
"I have told Geraldine that it took me 72 years to get engaged, so she's not to hold her breath for the marriage." In 2007, when he announced his engagement to his future wife.
"I'm very happy to snuff it. I've had enough time on Earth. I'd be happy if someone gave me the plug to pull." Interview with the Times, October 2012.
"I am a totally insane film director, writer, producer, silk-shirt cleaner, bad tempered, totally ridiculous example of humanity in deep shit." Profile on his Twitter account.
"During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema."
"As far as I'm concerned, British food went downhill after the 1950s, was still good in the 1970s and has since fallen off the edge of a cliff into a sea of mass suppliers, arrogance and absurdity." Daily Mail, July 2011.
"So this is it: goodbye. I've been writing this column for nearly 20 years and I don't want a carriage clock or a gold watch. I am trying to get rid of stuff, not collect it." Last column for the Sunday Times, December 2012.
• Michael Winner died on 21 January, 2013.
• Quotes sourced from IMDB unless otherwise attributed.
