Quotations

Honoré de Balzac in his 1843 novel La Muse du Département:"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

Napoleon Bonaparte: "One should always prefer to make mistakes of ambition rather than sloth."

Sir John Betjeman said that when the end of the world came he would like to be in the haberdashery department of Peter Jones “because nothing bad could ever happen there".