 I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. |
| Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. |
| The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. |
| If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions. |
| English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did. |
| Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. |
| You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes. |
| My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely. |
