Aristocrat Quote by Charles Finch

“Never in England were there so many gentlemen and so little gentleness.”

— C.J. Sansom

“Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl; skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with…

— Charles Dickens

“Better be dead than living without nobility. I'm an Englishman, a man of manners.”

— Deepak Rana

“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

“It is not mandatory that a society must have people who are vile and who rear filthiness instead of grit and ambition.”

— Neamat Imam

“Nobody ever went broke overestimating the vulgarity of the American people,”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.”

— Mark Dery

“I am not a terrorist. The death of the innocent is not something I take pleasure in—unlike you people. But hard choices must be…

— Stephen England

“One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church...”

— Henry James

“In all of England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society.…

— Emily Brontë

“The vulgar might laugh at the Foreign Office, but there was no doubt it taught you how to deal with difficult people.”

— William Somerset Maugham

“With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,”

— John Dos Passos