Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.

When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : "We are not amused".

The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.

They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

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

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export a great deal of snobbery to Australia and still have enough to spare for their own, internal needs.