Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?

People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.

The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.