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MysteRy · « **Reply #15 on:** April 21, 2017, 10:42:30 PM »

[highlight-text]I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.

Cedric Hardwicke

MysteRy · « **Reply #16 on:** April 21, 2017, 10:43:06 PM »

[highlight-text]What should they know of England who only England know?

Rudyard Kipling

MysteRy · « **Reply #17 on:** April 21, 2017, 10:43:40 PM »

[highlight-text]The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

Hugh Casson

MysteRy · « **Reply #18 on:** April 21, 2017, 10:44:14 PM »

[highlight-text]Froth at the top dregs at bottom but the middle excellent.

Voltaire

MysteRy · « **Reply #19 on:** April 21, 2017, 10:44:55 PM »

[highlight-text]Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

V. S. Pritchett

MysteRy · « **Reply #20 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:19:25 PM »

[highlight-text]The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

Frank Field

MysteRy · « **Reply #21 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:20:14 PM »

[highlight-text]Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Dean Acheson

MysteRy · « **Reply #22 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:20:48 PM »

[highlight-text]An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw

MysteRy · « **Reply #23 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:23:09 PM »

[highlight-text]The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

Stevie Smith

MysteRy · « **Reply #24 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:24:30 PM »

[highlight-text]Oh it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!

Thomas Dibdin

MysteRy · « **Reply #25 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:25:03 PM »

[highlight-text]In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.

Marquis Caraccioli

MysteRy · « **Reply #26 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:26:45 PM »

[highlight-text]Be England what she will With all her faults she is my country still.

Charles Churchill

MysteRy · « **Reply #27 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:27:42 PM »

[highlight-text]England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

MysteRy · « **Reply #28 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:34:09 PM »

[highlight-text]Rule Britannia Britannia rule the waves; Britains never will be slaves.

James Thomson

MysteRy · « **Reply #29 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:37:22 PM »

[highlight-text]The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

Alexander Woollcott

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