We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in beastly ways. Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.