I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.