There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.