That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.
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.
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.
You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you'll find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded at the other the monument to the man who did it. This is just an example of our attempts to be fair...
I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.
His Majesty's dominions on which the sun never sets.
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.
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.