But her dinners are rather amusing.

Of course the food's ghastly because she's the stingiest woman in London." On the other hand, many Americans (though less willing than the French) are willing to discuss creed, immortality, faith.

There is nothing from which the Englishman more peremptorily recoils, although he hates well nigh as deeply all abstract discussion, or to be clever, or to have you be clever.

An American friend of mine had grown tired of an Englishman who had been finding fault with one American thing after another.

So he suddenly said: "Will you tell me why you English when you enter your pews on Sunday always immediately smell your hats ?" The Englishman stiffened.