The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

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).

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.