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“What should they know of England who only England know?”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 o...”
“The English may not like music but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”
“The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.”
“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.”
“I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.”
“Be England what she will With all her faults she is my country still.”
“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say "This was their finest hour."”
“O it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!”
“For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations He remains an Englishman.”
“What have I done for you England my England? What is there I would not do England my own?”
“Froth at the top dregs at bottom but the middle excellent.”
“The royal throne of kings this scepter'd isle This earth of majesty this seat of Mars This other Eden demi-paradise This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war T...”
“fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.”
“When Britain first at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main This was the charter of the land And Guardian angels sung this strain "Rule Britannia! rule the waves Britons never will be slav...”
“Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed 'special relationship' between our two coun”
