Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite another to seek financial succour to avail oneself of the 5-2 they're offering on lie de Bourbon for the St Leger.

A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.