Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.