Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.

A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, the husband ski-ing in the Snowy Mountains. A lucky country.

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

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

What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to a Russian and beer to a Bavarian, what money is to a Swiss, that is outdoor-life to an Australian. It is a noble mania, better than vodka, better than cool reserve, better than money.

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

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