Where there is one Englishman there is a garden. Where there are two Englishmen there will be a club. But this does not mean any falling off in the number of gardens. There will be three. The club wil...
London is a roost for every bird.
It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period telling the English some interesting things about themselves and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of...
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change such as Bernard Shaw Keir Hardie Lloyd George Selfridge or Disraeli you will...
The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been remo...
Clear vision holds the key.
Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child from a poor background than a rich one.
The Englishman respects your opinions but he never thinks of your feelings.
I never could believe that Providencehad sent a few men into the world,ready booted and spurred to ride, andmillions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.
Can you imagine the reaction of a British tabloid newspaper if they found a small school in rural England hosting a party like this? A party? In a school? With children present? Where marijuana is ope...
Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
In the forest you may find yourself lost, without companions. You may come to a river which is not on a map. You may lose sight of your quarry, and forget why you are there. You may meet a dwarf, or t...
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."(Speech...
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