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

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.

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

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.

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.

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