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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. - [Fashion] For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. - [Change] Life was a funny thing that occurred on the way to the grave. - [Life] My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous. - [Conspicuous] The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. - [Meaning of Life] The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy. - [Sex] Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. - [Intelligence] Vice is its own reward. - [Vice] When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and asked if the god I did not believe in was the protestant God or the catholic one. - [Atheism] You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. - [Disaster] An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing. - The Naked Civil Servant (ch. 29) [Autobiography]
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