To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.