January 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!

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

You don’t mind dying for Queen and country, but you certainly don’t want to die for politicians.