Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.

The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.

If it is gay, ribald and lascivious night-life you are after, Israel is not the place for you. The night clubs you do find are nearer in spirit to a YMCA than to dens of iniquity.

In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.

Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

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

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