England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.

When I was young, I don't know how, I spent all my time in the presence of married women telling me their troubles. And when I said 'Why did you marry?' they said, 'Oh I married to get away from home.' And when I said, 'And why don't you leave him?' they gave the saddest answer in the world: they said, 'Where would I go?' So they stayed with men they didn't like because they had nowhere to go.

Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

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

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.