There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.
I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.
Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.
Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.
What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit
I think I love jokes! The best jokes are equal to the best art, in my mind, and as rare.
In the end, that's a blind alley - we have to get back to being able to think on our feet and react.
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.