Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity.

Israelis keep teaching you your own business. God knows everything but the Israelis know everything better.

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.

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

The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word for all and sundry.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

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