Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.

However British you may be, I am more British still.