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

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.

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.

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

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.

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

To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.