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

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

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

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

I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improp…

Just as the unleashing of ideas and myths in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries cleared the way for endless changes in state and social structures, so th…

The politician is : trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wou…