People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.