I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
Without class differences England would cease to be the living theatre it is.
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.
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.
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.
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.
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
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.
There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
God save our Gracious King Long live our Noble King God save the King. Send Him victorious Happy and Glorious Long to rule over us God save the King.
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