Quote of the Day (Noel Coward, on an English Institution)

Charles: "Anything interesting in The Times?"

Ruth: "Don't be silly, Charles."—English playwright Noel Coward (1899-1973), Blithe Spirit (1941)

In the U.S., conservatives would say the same thing about The New York Times--but for far different reasons than the couple in this play talking about the London institution...