Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.

Prices in Italy are only slightly lower than in France, which means that Italy is a very expensive country for everyone, natives, visitors and tourists.

THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.

Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities.

Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.