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

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

" People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. "

" Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. "

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

" 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. "

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