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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!

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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.

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  • In every war England wins one battle. The last one.
  • In the Middle Ages, the economic and social position of the village clergy had been identified with that of the peasants. Parish priests took an active part in Wat Tyler’s rising against the proprietary classes, the wealthy monasteries and the great princes of the Church.

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  • Love of England is very nearly the strongest emotion that I possess.
  • Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.
  • England was unique among nations when it made the breakthrough to sustained economic growth in the seventeenth century. Major economic changes were preceded by a political revolution that brought a distinct set of economic and political institutions, much more inclusive than those of any previous society. These institutions would have profound implications not only for economic incentives and prosperity, but also for who would reap the benefits of prosperity. They were based not on consensus but, rather, were the result of intense conflict as different groups competed for power, contesting the authority of others and attempting to structure institutions in their own favor. The culmination of the institutional struggles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were two landmark events: the English Civil War between 1642 and 1651, and particularly the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
    • Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (2012)
  • The technological advances, the drive of businesses to expand and invest, and the efficient use of skills and talent were all made possible by the inclusive economic institutions that England developed. These in turn were founded on her inclusive political institutions. England developed these inclusive political institutions because of two factors. First were political institutions, including a centralized state, that enabled her to take the next radical—in fact, unprecedented—step toward inclusive institutions with the onset of the Glorious Revolution. While this factor distinguished England from much of the world, it did not significantly differentiate it from Western European countries such as France and Spain. More important was the second factor. The events leading up to the Glorious Revolution forged a broad and powerful coalition able to place durable constraints on the power of the monarchy and the executive, which were forced to be open to the demands of this coalition. This laid the foundations for pluralistic political institutions, which then enabled the development of economic institutions that would underpin the Industrial Revolution.
    • Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (2012)
  • Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.
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