October 6, 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!

[On being prime minister] Sometimes the strain is awful, you have to resort to Jane Austen.

Fame is a vapor; popularity is an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.