How do you know that love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven, you get there by nine and he or she has not called the police yet—it’s gone.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither.

The lover says how beautiful you are, now that you love me.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy, or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and no move made, until “a nice cup of tea” is quickly made.

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.