The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

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 memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

People who can write a book usually do.

If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.