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You have many flaws, he announced… “But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison.” “Was?” she asked. “I don’t have this flaw any longer?” “No, you don’t.” “Pray tell,” she muttered in exasperation, “what was this terrible flaw?” He grinned. “You used to be English.” Julie

Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard,

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language. Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land Favorite0

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child. Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper Favorite0

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life. Cecil Rhodes (attributed). Favorite0

England has three great things: tea, that comes from India, and Oscar Wilde and me, who are Irishmen. George Bernard Shaw Favorite0

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. Malcolm Bradbury Favorite0

Not to be English was for my family so terrible a handicap as almost to place the sufferer in the permanent invalid class. Osbert Lancaster Favorite0

We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners. We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians. Halvard Lange Favorite0

England is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than sex. Jackie Mason Favorite0