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

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

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suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

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

Don't cry after my death, I won't know it.Love me when I am alive.

To be a good at something you have to be intelligent like an elephant, sly like a fox and patient like a camel.

Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him.

You can only feel creative when there is joy. When there is a sense of passion.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.