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“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 soun...”
“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.”
“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...”
“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.”
“The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.”
“Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.”
“The British love permanence more than they love beauty.”
“An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.”
“The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.”
“A Scotch mist may wet an Englishman to the skin.”
“If I should die think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.”
“Oh to be in England Now that April's there.”
“In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.”
