Attributed

• You've been pretty unlucky with the weather, Mr Piper.
  • On seeing John Piper's dark views of Windsor Castle painted during the last war. Given in Times Literary Supplement, 7 October 1994, page 25.

• We are not a family, we are a firm
  • On the Royal family, quoted by A. B. Baxter in Destiny Called to Them (Oxford University Press, 1939)