Of the general inadequacy of intellect in the conduct of life Britain is the most majestic exponent. She is instinctively…
What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia? Sydney Smith (1771-1845), English clergyman, writer. Quoted in: Hesketh Pearson,…
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters. Robert Morley (b. 1908), British actor.…
Here we have the beautiful British compromise: a man can say anything, he mustn't do anything; a man can listen…
There is a marvellous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. Catherine Drinker…
His face was the sort of British face from which emotion has been so carefully banished that a foreigner is…
Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you? Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.…
Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over…
I really knew nothing about the dancing habits of the Scottish. But I wanted to help. "I could teach them…
Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their…