Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail.

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.

Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.

For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.

when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.

a woman is not really dressed unless she is wearing a hat.

I have the perfect face for radio.

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.

Religion helps humanity to pass through its darkest times.

Leaders lead themselves first and foremost. Only then can they act as example and inspiration to others.

Too many times we are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this [world] we can become.

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

We want to achieve a stable, peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground.

Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

Make a Fair Product for a Fair Price, then Tell the World.