It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.

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.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.

Good heavens, television is something you appear on; you don't watch.

Christmas is at our throats again.

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