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Not only England but every Englishman is an island.

The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

England is a nation of voyeurs.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

In England I would rather be a man a horse a dog or a woman in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.

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.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

Where there is one Englishman there is a garden. Where there are two Englishmen there will be a club. But this does not mean any falling off in the number of gardens. There will be three. The club will have one too.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

A Scotch mist may wet an Englishman to the skin.

Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.

Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.

George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

If I should die think only this of me that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.

The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.