The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

The stock actor is a stage calamity

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.