And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.

You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking orders. On the whole, directors were treated absurdly well, and workers badly, and most industries were weakened by class suspicion and false economies and cynicism. But the same qualities that made English people seem stubborn and secretive made them, face to face, reliable and true to their word. I thought: The English do small things well and big things badly.