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  • Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life
  • England has three great things: tea, that comes from India, and Oscar Wilde and me, who are Irishmen.
    • George Bernard Shaw
  • The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
  • I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
  • Not to be English was for my family so terrible a handicap as almost to place the sufferer in the permanent invalid class.
  • We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners. We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.
  • England is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than sex.
  • An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
  • Humour is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
  • In left-wing circles it is always always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box.
  • In England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
  • You should study the Peerage.... It is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
  • On the Continent, people have good food; in England, people have good table manners.
  • Many continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
  • Do not be misled by memories of your youth when, on the Continent, wanting to describe someone as exceptionally dull, you remarked: 'He is the type who would discuss the weather with you.' In England this is an ever-interesting, even thrilling topic, and you must be good at discussing the weather.

England always wins the last battle![edit]

QUOTE: The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.END OF QUOTE.

Wonder who the creep is who suggested that it is about Britain? Britain is not England. In fact, all Celtic language parts of GB are the exact opposite of England.