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.

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.

the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

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.