In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

I'm too old to know everything

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.