2nd Baron Mancroft Mancroft quotes

" My first car was painted red down one side and blue down the other to confuse witnesses in case of an accident. " # Wit # Life and Living # Color

" Nobody ever seemed quite clear whether the expression "drunk as a lord" should be taken as a compliment or an insult. " # Compliments # Alcohol and Alcoholism # Insults

" The only exercise I ever take is walking up hospital stairs to visit friends who've damaged themselves by taking exercise. " # Friends and Friendship # Love # Hospitals

" Before the War you took your secretary to Paris and called her your wife. Now, in order to wriggle through the tax-gatherer's net, you take your wife to Paris and call her your secretary. " # Destiny # Taxes and Taxation # Cities and City Life

" Cricket is a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of Eternity. " # Age and Aging # Language # Death and Dying