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

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.

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

... 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.

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.