I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.

Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due

Shaken and not stirred.