(from his television adaption of Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End)
A flat in Holborn! I couldn’t have imagined anything more humiliating!
People who can repeat what you are saying aren't listening
...the reason why the lives of the rich are at bottom so tame and uneventful is simply that they can…
Getting facts from my files would be instantaneous If it weren't for the drawers marked "miscellaneous".