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

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.

In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.

The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.

Australia objects to the mini-skirt not on moral but on economic grounds. Australians are no prudes and the lovely, healthy, sporty Australian girls have no reason to hide their knees and thighs. However, the mini-skirt is disastrous for the wool-trade.

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.