Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.