Sir Compton Mackenzie with John Freeman, Editor, New Statesman.

If the Highland superstition that long lobes to an ear are a sign of longevity, I ought to reach the late 80s anyway, barring accidents, of course. I also had on American mother, and that helps Sunday Express

I was too good-looking and too clever, that was my trouble. Reynolds News
'You could have been a great Greek scholar', said my headmaster. 'Yet you threw it all away to swagger up and down the corridors of the school with the manners and appearance of a debauched clerk'
When I can't find a woman to wash up and dry, it will be time for me to leave this world The Scotsman
I enjoy what I believe to be the advantage of not having taken any violent exercise since I was an undergraduate... Sunday Express
Instead of chasing enemy agents and managing our own espionage in the Balkans and Asia Minor, I devoted myself to music, Siamese cats, and growing flowers BBC broadcast
A footman picked up the leg of the near horse and started to lake a stone out of its shoe. I was watching the operation with absorbed interest, when I became aware that an old lady in the landau was bowing to me. So I bowed back. She was wearing a mushroom-shaped hat with a veil round it, and I suddenly realised that this was Queen Victoria herself. She continued to bow, and I kept pace with the bows... London Calling