Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

... 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.

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

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

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

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

A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.