I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
In England I would rather be a man a horse a dog or a woman in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.
Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
Socialism has been preached for so long the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.
Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.
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.
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
Rule Britannia Britannia rule the waves Britains never will be slaves.
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...
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.
Oh it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.
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.
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