They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

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.

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suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

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

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