No nice men are good at getting taxis..

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it..

It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they ha….

American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitut….

I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking….

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up..

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes..

As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things..

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?.

People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesd….

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why..

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation..

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a….

It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the ….

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one..

Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money..

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head..

It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing..

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences..

The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind..

In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on….