Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.