The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.

Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never having played golf, they never knew that strange chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip shot. If Cleopatra had been ousted in the first round of the Ladies' Singles, we should have heard a lot less of her proud imperiousness.