But the English character is incomplete in a way that is particularly annoying to the foreign observer. It has a…
The Englishman appears to be cold and unemotional because he is really slow... When a disaster comes, the English instinct…
No—but your whole attitude toward emotion is wrong. Emotion has nothing to do with appropriateness. It matters only that it…
And it is this undeveloped heart that is largely responsible for the difficulties of Englishmen abroad. An undeveloped heart—not a…
You see, my darling girl, it isn’t quite done over here to parade one’s emotions so publicly. We as a…
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
I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are…
His face was the sort of British face from which emotion has been so carefully banished that a foreigner is…