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

A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He had learnt it at elementary school; at secondary school; at his sports club; at the Komsomol; at the university; at a folk dancing course; at the chess-club.

Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities.

Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.

Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.

People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.