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

It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and look at a railway station,' I was told, 'and you'll be horrified.' I went and was horrified; horrified by the cleanliness of the place.

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.

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

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science, their labour bore fruit.