The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

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).

[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.

Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.

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.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.