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suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

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 are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.

Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed, will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.

But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.

A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it.

I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.

I tried to tell them that things would be okay, but I didn't believe it.

I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.