Occupation: Journalist Birth: 1928
And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untid….
Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never com….
I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the….
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….
Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong..
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer..
As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in..
An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managi….
Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel..
[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off i….
No nice men are good at getting taxis..
Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life..
I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done..
a perfectly managed Christmas correct in every detail is, like basted inside seams and letters answered by return, a sure sign of someone who hasn't ….
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..
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..