Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. — Peter Ustinov. British actor and humanitarian (1921–2004)
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.
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.