All that technical expertise isn’t worth a damn if you don’t get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to...

I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

Wouldn’t it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn’t have tea?

I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment...

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

Television is for appearing on – not for looking at.

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

Strange how potent cheap music is.

Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.