Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts...nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.
Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
Socialism has been preached for so long the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.
Like Princes crowned they bore them--Like Demi-Gods they wrought,When the New World lay before themIn headlong fact and thought. Fate and their foemen proved themAbove all meed of praise,And Gloriana...
If it were not for collectors England would be full, so to speak, of rare birds and wonderful butterflies, strange flowers and a thousand interesting things. But happily the collector prevents all tha...
The young Cambridge group the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy and a whispering murmuring sort of...
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
Rule Britannia Britannia rule the waves Britains never will be slaves.
Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.
I loved the first Christmas I had in England.
Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.
There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were all friends or acquaintances, and they liked the same sort of things, and...
For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations He remains an Englishman.
England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sk...
If I should die think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.
Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.
Oh it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.