When the odds are hopeless when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other

Governments change. The lies stay the same.

A medium Vodka dry Martini — with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.

But always the wheels of the good old-fashioned railway train provide the merit of being self-operating.All you need to do is to make a four-foot jump.

Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple – or dead.

It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

There had been something very disquieting about the dinner-table downstairs. It had been laid for only three people.