There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living.

In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.