The English Flag Rudyard Kipling 1891 Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fluttering in the flames…
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do…
You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It is the country with the worst food after Finland. Jacques…
A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. George Orwell, Burmese Days
The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves. Martin Amis
And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to…
The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the…
Thatcher was not a strong or formidable leader. She simply did not give a shit about people, and this coarseness…