Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.

I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.