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.

... 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.

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.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

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

A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.