Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

- Nancy Banks-Smith

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

- Nancy Banks-Smith

The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.

- Nancy Banks-Smith

This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water bu…

- Nancy Banks-Smith

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

- Nancy Banks-Smith

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

- Nancy Banks-Smith

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to d…

- Nancy Banks-Smith

By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any ri…

- Nancy Banks-Smith