An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.