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Live by non-intellectual standards

Of the general inadequacy of intellect in the conduct of life Britain is the most majestic exponent. She is instinctively…

12 years ago

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia? Sydney Smith (1771-1845), English clergyman, writer. Quoted in: Hesketh Pearson,…

12 years ago

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters. Robert Morley (b. 1908), British actor.…

12 years ago

A man can say anything, he mustn’t do anything

Here we have the beautiful British compromise: a man can say anything, he mustn't do anything; a man can listen…

12 years ago

There is a marvellous turn and trick to British arrogance

There is a marvellous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. Catherine Drinker…

12 years ago

British face from which emotion has been so carefully banished

His face was the sort of British face from which emotion has been so carefully banished that a foreigner is…

12 years ago

You Brits really don’t have a sense of humor do you?

Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you? Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.…

12 years ago

The hypocritical way the British ruling class

Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over…

12 years ago

British is Better

I really knew nothing about the dancing habits of the Scottish. But I wanted to help. "I could teach them…

12 years ago

They court privacy and solitude

Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their…

12 years ago