You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.

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

American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on the American air the world's most primitive writing is performed under perfect technical conditions.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.

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