Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?
I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.
If anyone tells me I'm fat, I say, - That's because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit
Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.
In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live.
Happiness is always a coincidence.
Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.
Every day is new. It's just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.