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.

... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.

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

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

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

people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

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