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

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

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

Prices in Italy are only slightly lower than in France, which means that Italy is a very expensive country for everyone, natives, visitors and tourists.

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.

Foreigners have souls; the English haven't.

On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally worshipped as in ancient Egypt.