The younger generation is knocking at the door, and as I open it there steps spritely in the incomparable Max.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it’s a refuge from home life.

‘Do you know what a pessimist is?’ ‘A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.’

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

I’m one of the undeserving poor … up agen middle-class morality all the time … What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

Walk! Not bloody likely.

I don’t want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.

PICKERING : Have you no morals, man?

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.