My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward.

I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different.

I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.

My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.