Englishmen Quote by Edward St. Aubyn

“But Lord! once one began mouthing words aloud, how silly they sounded!”

— Virginia Woolf

“To discuss endlessly what silly people mean when they say silly things may be amusing but can hardly be important.”

— Bertrand Russell

“The servants used to say, 'he read himself silly.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“His face was broad and fat, his mouth wide, and without any other expression than that of imbecility. His eyes vacant and spiritless, and…

— David Edmonds

“In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

“When he talked, there was a sort of mushy sound to his pronunciation that was charming because one sensed that it betrayed not so…

— Marcel Proust

“I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of…

— Agatha Christie

“I remember what seemed to me a bright remark he made after a month's stay in England about the difference between Polish and English…

— Stanislaw M. Ulam

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim…

— Guy Sajer

“And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“He was a man who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them, but had…

— Susanna Clarke