Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.

The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.

Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.

If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.

I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends, happy to be with my wife and family, but the high spot of every day is when I first catch a glimpse of myself in the shaving mirror.

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.