There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.

Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

Now you can leave home at any time you like.Your mother comes down and finds a picture of the Eiffel Tower on her plate. And she says, 'Oh! Rosemary's gone to Paris. No wonder the bathroom was so tidy.' And nobody minds. But in my day, to go abroad with all those wicked Frenchmen, what would become of them? So no-one ever went anywhere.