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British men are notoriously lousy lovers

It’s especially good that, although British men are notoriously lousy lovers, British women have learnt to expect little more and…

12 years ago

Emotion has nothing to do with appropriateness

No—but your whole attitude toward emotion is wrong. Emotion has nothing to do with appropriateness. It matters only that it…

12 years ago

For it is not that the Englishman can’t feel—it is that he is afraid to feel

And it is this undeveloped heart that is largely responsible for the difficulties of Englishmen abroad. An undeveloped heart—not a…

12 years ago

What Englishwomen lack is the light-footed mobility of those Europeans

What Englishwomen lack is the light-footed mobility of those Europeans. Vogue, January 1997, p.89

12 years ago

Englishwomen’s feet

But even the English diet seems to me to give the intellect heavy feet—in fact, Englishwomen’s feet... Friedrich Nietzsche, “Why…

12 years ago

Our cloudy climate and our chilly women

Our cloudy climate and our chilly women. Byron, Beppo, stanza 48

12 years ago

Oh damn the English!

You see, my darling girl, it isn’t quite done over here to parade one’s emotions so publicly. We as a…

12 years ago

Self-pollution is a sin against nature

FOR Fornication and Adultery itself, tho’ heinous Sins, we have Frailty and Nature to plead; but SELF-POLLUTION is a Sin,…

12 years ago

Perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate…

12 years ago

I wish you five hundred miles away

we awake to meet the day we say good-morning and I wish you five hundred miles away. Roger McGough, after…

12 years ago