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.
A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them any more. Being worse than rootless... speciesl...
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.
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...
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
NASSER: (about OMAR): Haven't you trained him up to look after you, like I have done with my girls?PAPA: He brushes the dust from one place to another. He squeezes shirts and heats soup. But that hard...
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...
These marvels were great and comfortable ones, but in the old England there was a greater still. The weather behaved itself.In the spring all the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and t...
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...
She grew up in the ordinary paradise of the English countryside. When she was five she walked to school, two miles, across meadows covered with cowslips, buttercups, daisies, vetch, rimmed by hedges f...
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.
I never heard communism seriously propounded or argued; perhaps I was too deeply preoccupied with my own dissipations; and, as it turned out in the end it was a way of thought that I was denied or spa...
The fastest way to destroy a culture is to make it multicultural.
Snobbery - the "pox Britannica"
The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles each on its own side of the road each soundin...
If I should die think only this of me that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
A Scotch mist may wet an Englishman to the skin.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Oh to be in England Now that April's there.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.