This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

I can never forgive God for having invented the French

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.