“ Land of hope and glory Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee who are borne of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set God who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet. A. C. Benson
“ The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel. Truman Capote
“ It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period telling the English some interesting things about themselves and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of… Patrick Campbell
“ Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change such as Bernard Shaw Keir Hardie Lloyd George Selfridge or Disraeli you will… Raymond Postgate
“ It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him. George Bernard Shaw
“ 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… Philip Guedalla
“ If I should die think only this of me that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England. Rupert Brooke
