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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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