The Scots are very hospitable; almost as hospitable as the Americans.

The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

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

I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.

As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.