England Quote by Baroness Orczy

“John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying…

— George Eliot

“For this is England where a man's neighbours will never suffer him to live entirely bereft of society, let him be as dry and…

— Susanna Clarke

“He tolerated his fellow Englishmen, but the Welsh were cabbage-farting dwarves, the Scots were scabby arse-suckers, and the French were shriveled turds.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“A thousand thanks, my master!' John Baptist said in his own language, and with the quick conciliatory manner of his own countrymen. Monsieur Rigaud…

— Charles Dickens

“Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. ”

— Ronald Reagan

“for after all, the British peasantry are the best taught, best mannered, most self-respecting of any in Europe:”

— Charlotte Brontë

“…and the mousesized mousecolored spinster trembling and aghast at her own temerity, staring across it at the childless bachelor in whom ended that long…

— William Faulkner

“By reason of his species and his manners, the peasant comes below the pig. He finds moral life profoundly repugnant. If by chance he…

— Eduardo Galeano

“He walked to Brooks’s, intending to drink a glass of port, eat a joint of beef, and read the Times. But even at his…

— Laura Lee Guhrke

“What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer, a blown prostate…

— John Steinbeck

SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most characteristic duties, in some of the Western and Southern States, are…

— Ambrose Bierce