Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'

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.

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

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

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