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An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. George Mikes Favorite0

Humour is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. Malcolm Muggeridge Favorite0

In left-wing circles it is always always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would

In England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. Oscar Wilde Favorite0

On the Continent, people have good food; in England, people have good table manners. George Mikes Favorite0

Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide? Oscar Wilde, Ave Imperatrix Favorite0

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. Voltaire, Description of the English Nation Favorite0

A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers, and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation. Josiah Tucker, Four Tracts on Political and Commercial Subjects. (The words are said to have been used by Dr. Tucker, in a sermon, some years before they

There is no land like England, Where’er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, Where’er the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be! And

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. George Bernard Shaw,