The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is.

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that "nice girls don't." He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue-but only in a certain section of society.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.