Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

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.

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.

American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.

The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.