Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and look at a railway station,' I was told, 'and you'll be horrified.' I went and was horrified; horrified by the cleanliness of the place.

Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.