"It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

Englishmen must have an island.

It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

An Englishman is never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

I knew I was in England by the smell.

It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an attache in the diplomatic service.