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...
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
Without class differences England would cease to be the living theatre it is.
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 English never draw a line without blurring it.
The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.
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.
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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.
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors.
A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.
Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.