What should they know of England who only England know?
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...
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
We are articulate but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence he sometimes says something.
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 find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.
The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
Oh to be in England Now that April's there.
In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
Be England what she will With all her faults she is my country still.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say "This was their finest hour."
O it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
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