Quotes

Englishwomen’s feet

But even the English diet seems to me to give the intellect heavy feet—in fact, Englishwomen’s feet... Friedrich Nietzsche, “Why…

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Our cloudy climate and our chilly women

Our cloudy climate and our chilly women. Byron, Beppo, stanza 48

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Oh damn the English!

You see, my darling girl, it isn’t quite done over here to parade one’s emotions so publicly. We as a…

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Self-pollution is a sin against nature

FOR Fornication and Adultery itself, tho’ heinous Sins, we have Frailty and Nature to plead; but SELF-POLLUTION is a Sin,…

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Perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate…

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I wish you five hundred miles away

we awake to meet the day we say good-morning and I wish you five hundred miles away. Roger McGough, after…

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Unable to sustain relationships and prizes her freedom above the collective good of the class

She is unable to sustain relationships and prizes her freedom above the collective good of the class. We encourage self-sufficiency,…

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England may be a copulating country but it is not an erotic country

The fact remains that England may be a copulating country but it is not an erotic country... Girls are being…

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This soul’s prison we call England

This soul’s prison we call England. George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House (Hector in Act III)

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The English have no soul, they have the understatement instead

The English have no soul, they have the understatement instead. George Mikes, How to be an Alien, p.24

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