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The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature’s gifts to her English children … we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.

Patrick Campbell

It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period telling the English some interesting things about themselves and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.

Marshall McLuhan

One matter Englishmen don’t think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.

The English may not like music but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.

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

The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

Stephen Leacock

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

English Proverb

A Scotch mist may wet an Englishman to the skin.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.