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

Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.

The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.

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.

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

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