There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

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suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place?

Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.

We're born alone and we die alone. So in between, let's spend time with people that make us feel good... or at least put-out.

As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.