“You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underwear. One or the other. Not both.”

“He looked like a Dictator on the point of starting a purge.”

“If England wants a happy, well-fed aristocracy, she mustn't have wars. She can't have it both ways.”

“You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.”

“That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.”

“You can't be too careful how you stir up a policeman.”

“The cells smell is a great feature of French prisons. Ours in No.44 was one of those fine broad-shouldered up and coming young smells, which stand on both feet and look the world in the eye. We became very fond and proud of it.”