I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

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.

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

... 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.