Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

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

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

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

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