Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.

It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.