Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.