The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

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.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.