If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.

Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.

A party: one arrives long after it's started, and one's going to leave long before it's over.

The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.