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.

In England the boy pats his adored one on the back and says softly, "I don't object, you know." If he is quite mad with passion, he may add: "I rather fancy you, in fact.

The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British pride: muddle is not an exclusively British institution. Read descriptions, for instance, of the over-organized, wonderfully systematic and "thorough" German war machine during the last war.

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.