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

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

Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

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.

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

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.

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.