““An average English house combines all the curses of civilisation with the vicissitudes of life in the open. It is all right to have windows, but you must not have double windows because double windows would indeed stop the wind from blowing right into the room, and after all, you must be fair and give the wind a chance. It is all right to have central heating in an English home, except the bath room, because that is the only place where you are naked and wet at the same time, and you must give British germs a fair chance.””
![“When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived” quote by Arthur Koestler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/169/arthur-koestler-1903_aggression_when-all-is-said-its-atmosphere-england_1164747.jpg)
![“... "England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions." ~…” quote by Mitt Romney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f22/mitt-romney-268_values-and-virtues_england-sic-is-just-a-small-island-its-r_3171105.jpg)
![“London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks…” quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aac/sylvia-townsend-warner-7063_apples_london-life-was-very-full-and-exciting-b_3059485.jpg)
