The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

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

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.

The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.

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 never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.