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

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

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

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

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

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.