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We go home and cry on our own

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are…

12 years ago

He that is mad, and sent to England

FIRST CLOWN: He that is mad, and sent to England. HAMLET: Ay, marry; why was he sent to England? FIRST…

12 years ago

Gorgonised me from head to foot

Gorgonised me from head to foot, With a stony British stare. Lord Tennyson (1809-92), English poet. Maud, pt. I, set.…

12 years ago

A bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered

There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered. Melvyn…

12 years ago

Think of what our Nation stands for

Think of what our Nation stands for, Books from Boots' and country lanes, Free speech, free passes, class distinction, Democracy…

12 years ago

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence. Tony Benn (b. 1925), British Labour politician. Speech, 31 Jan. 1963.

12 years ago

Subserviency to British criticism

There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first,…

12 years ago

Too clever by half

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be "too clever by half." The probability is that too…

12 years ago

Blatant and bumptious

To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as…

12 years ago

The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people

The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people, agreeing with alacrity that they are neither successful nor clever, and only modestly…

12 years ago