The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word for all and sundry.

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suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

Change is good but dollars are better.- Tara daniels

True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beautiful, nothing can change that.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

I was a show-off as a kid and loved to dress up. I was constantly in costume, drawing mustaches on with eyeliner and letting my sister plait my hair and all that.

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

You can't flip-flop and be commander-in-chief.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

In two words, impossible.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.