“All friendship groups divide into two halves: moody ex-goths who don't...” — Grace Dent Quote

“All friendship groups divide into two halves: moody ex-goths who don't mind summer lunch indoors while sipping ice-cold pastis with damp backs-of-knees; and those Club Tropicana types who call ahead to jostle for the one terrace table that's in direct sunlight and from which you'll be lucky to leave with any skin left on your shoulders.”

“I love being shown evidence of a rule-flouter, because it makes me feel ever so righteous and holy.”

“The solid, irrefutable truth is that money will make all daily minutiae of life much, much easier and that's why Boris Johnson and thousands of his wage bracket guard their status like lions and always, always need just a bit more.”

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”

“To all my political opponents, all and sundry, not only the presidential bets, I would like to offer my hand to friendship.”

“When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.”