I’m convinced there’s a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

If Botticelli were alive today he’d be working for Vogue.

Corruption is nature’s way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.