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

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

It is great fun dying in the United States of America. It is great fun first of all for the undertakers who make a wonderful living out of it but also for the deceased who suddenly becomes the centre of attention and fuss.

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".

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

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

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