When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret, he can rob, rapeand kill.

I meddled in things that man must leave alone

... the sort of smiles used at weddings, turned on very carefully to half pressure to prevent them wearing out.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.

No one gives you a chance. You have to take chances.

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.

I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.