"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.