Quotes

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

English crime is reverting to its oldest habits

Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many…

12 years ago

The Brits don’t merely enjoy misery, they get off on it

As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I…

12 years ago

Americans as revolutionaries?

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans. Shashi Tharoor

12 years ago

Butlers only truly exist in England

It is sometimes said that butlers only truly exist in England. Other countries, whatever title is actually used, have only…

12 years ago

The national dish is no longer fish and chips, it’s curry

Britain is no longer totally a white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks, and drink tea. The national…

12 years ago

Britain: America’s poodle in Europe

Britain: America's Trojan poodle in Europe The Economist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUC3HNDymec

12 years ago