Quotes

What should they know of England who only England know?

The English Flag Rudyard Kipling 1891 Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fluttering in the flames…

12 years ago

The British do not expect happiness

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do…

12 years ago

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It is the country with the worst food after Finland. Jacques…

12 years ago

A dull, decent people

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. George Orwell, Burmese Days

12 years ago

The English and schadenfreude

The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves. Martin Amis

12 years ago

I was very grateful that I didn’t do the British stiff upper lip

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to…

12 years ago

Empire built with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other

The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the…

12 years ago

Thatcher simply did not give a shit about people

Thatcher was not a strong or formidable leader. She simply did not give a shit about people, and this coarseness…

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