An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
News of the death of James V on 14 December gave even further cause for rejoicing, because his heir was a week-old girl, the infant Mary, Queen of Scots. Scotland would be subject to yet another weake...
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...
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
Without class differences England would cease to be the living theatre it is.
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
The local natives were particularly curious to know why the English required such huge quantities of pepper and there was much scratching of heads until it was finally agreed that English houses were...
The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.
Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.
A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
The rout, that dreary review of fashionable fineries, that parade of well-dressed self-infatuations, is one of those English inventions currently the other nations. England seems determined to see th...
In England I would rather be a man a horse a dog or a woman in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
I loved the first Christmas I had in England.