The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.