England is always remaking herself, her cliffs eroding, her sandbanks drifting, springs bubbling up in dead ground. They regroup themselves while we sleep, the landscapes through which we move, and ev...
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.
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psych...
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.
That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.
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."
England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.
There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.
The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.
The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.
England is a nation of voyeurs.
We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
What have I done for you England my England? What is there I would not do England my own?
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
What should they know of England who only England know?
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.