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

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

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

There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.

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