Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.

In England, nobody's your friend.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

I never say 'No' to anything.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I go wherever my fare is paid.