Do you know what “le vice anglais”—the English vice—really is? Not flagellation, not pederasty—whatever the French believe it to be:…
Englishwomen conceal their feelings until after they are married. They show them then. Oscar Wilde, A Woman of no Importance
I am due to appear in court next week Charged with emotion. Roger McGough, Vandal
The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language. George Bernard Shaw, widely attributed beginning…
Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don’t speak English?”…
One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full…
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
When learning English as a second language, be sure to garble small words out of order in incomplete sentences. Then…
Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to…
I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a…