Foreigners have souls; the English haven't.

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

Would somebody please tell him whose idea it had been to kill the entire state of Colorado?

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

My earliest memory is of the best Christmas gift ever, a toy train. I remember riding that thing all through our house.

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.

A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

Perfect love will never want the preeminence in everything, it will never want to take the place of another, it will always be willing to take the back seat.

America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.