As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.

It's like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him.

A bloody good thing, but too late.

Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?