Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.

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

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.

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

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