Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.

To think of losing is to lose already.

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.