British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps..

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally..

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter..

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them..

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth..

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them i….

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitu….

I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no ….

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died..

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength..

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done..

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done..

When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach.

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures..

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up qu….

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us..

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaw….

Please keep off the grass..

Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for yo….

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of..

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it..