Hugh Massingberd quotes:

Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.

In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight

The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour