The Scots are very hospitable; almost as hospitable as the Americans.
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?