Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Beauty is a social necessity.

When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.