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| A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. | | Uncategorized | |
| At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. | | Uncategorized | |
| Books, I don't know what you see in them . . . I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them. | | Uncategorized | |
| By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. | | Uncategorized | |
| Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. | | Children | |
| Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. | | Comedy | |
| Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first | | Belief; Friends | |
| Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. | | Corruption | |
| Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. | | Uncategorized | |
| Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. | | Criticism | |
| He shows great originality, which must be curbed at all cost | | Uncategorized | |
| Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. | | Virtue | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal | | Uncategorized | |
| I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. | | Uncategorized | |
| I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. | | Uncategorized | |
| If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue. | | Uncategorized | |
| If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. | | Uncategorized | |
| In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. | | America and Americans | |
