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" At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. "

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

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

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

" Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved. "

" It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon. "

" Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. "

" If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. "

" Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them. "

" I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. "

" The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. "

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" Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. "

" Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. "

" It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. "

" Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night. "

" Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique. "

" I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. "

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

" Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. "

" The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us. "

" The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. "

" The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. "

" Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. "

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

" Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. "

" Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. "

" Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. "

" Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them. "

" To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. "