Success Is Good For The Character.

The Main Aim Of Education Should Be To Send Children Out Into The World With A Reasonably Sized Anthology In Their Heads So That, While Seated On The Lavatory, Waiting In Doctors' Surgeries, On Stationary Trains Or Watching Interviews With Politicians, They May Have Something Interesting To Think About.

I Had Inherited What My Father Called The Art Of The Advocate, Or The Irritating Habit Of Looking For The Flaw In Any Argument.

I Refuse To Spend My Life Worrying About What I Eat. There Is No Pleasure Worth Foregoing Just For An Extra Three Years In The Geriatric Ward.

Loyalty To The School To Which Your Parents Pay To Send You Seemed To Me Like Feeling Loyalty To Selfridges.

The Worst Fault Of The Working Classes Is Telling Their Children They're Not Going To Succeed, Saying: There Is Life, But It's Not For You.