It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.

- Michael Frayn

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valuel…

- Michael Frayn

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

- Michael Frayn

When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.

- Michael Frayn

You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.

- Michael Frayn

No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes.

- Michael Frayn

And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, wh…

- Michael Frayn

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally …

- Michael Frayn

We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to …

- Michael Frayn