There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first,…
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be "too clever by half." The probability is that too…
To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as…
The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people, agreeing with alacrity that they are neither successful nor clever, and only modestly…
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…