February 28 (Bonus Quote)

[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!

[Definition of] Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Tories, in short, are atrophied Englishmen, lacking certain moral and intellectual reflexes.