But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.

Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and it's a lot of work, and it's got glory in its drudgery.

I've got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club.

Inflation could be a very - is a likely consequence out of what's going on now.