I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.

Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

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

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.

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.