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It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. — Margaret Halsey
The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love. — Margaret Halsey
It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they… — William Hazlitt
From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom. — Heinrich Heine
The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out… — Heinrich Heine
The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive.… — Heinrich Heine
England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines. — Hanif Kureishi
The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there… — D. H. Lawrence
England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their… — Colin MacInnes
The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles. — George Mikes
A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that… — Malcolm Muggeridge
The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined. — Arthur Murray
The English are the people of consummate cant. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox. — Max O'Rell
FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified. — Joe Orton
... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they… — Thomas Love Peacock
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English. — Unknown Author
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. — George Bernard Shaw
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them. — George Bernard Shaw
The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country. — Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense,… — Paul Verlaine
The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely… — Auberon Waugh
In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen. — Oscar Wilde

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