April 18, 2025

[On hearing Lady Mountbatten’s anti-monarchical views] How easy it seems for a semi-royal millionnairess, who has exhausted all the pleasures of money and position, to turn almost Communist!

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.