 People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. |
| Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved. |
| The truth is an ambition which is beyond us. |
| Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. |
| Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. |
| At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. |
| Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. |
| Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique. |
| Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them. |
| Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. |
| Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. |
| The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. |
| If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue. |
| It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. |
| To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. |
| Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. |
| I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. |
| I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. |
| Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. |
| Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. |
