Last time Quote by Mark Kurlansky

“The pirogues came with live turtles, and with fish, with cloudy beer and wine made from bananas, palm nuts, or sorghum, and with the…

— Nadine Gordimer

For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being…

— Lord Byron

“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which British sailors…

— George Orwell

“English muffin," a confection so grim that it could not have been sold in England even in wartime.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“We landed on the island of South Beeveland, where we remained about three weeks, playing at soldiers, smoking mynheer's long clay pipes, and drinking…

— Anonymous

“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

“Yes, we were sold at auction, like swine.  In a big town and an active market we should have brought a good price; but…

— Mark Twain

Leh has few of what Europeans regard as travelling necessaries. The brick tea which I purchased from a Lhassa trader was disgusting. I afterwards…

— Isabella Bird

“The ship started a school of fliers that skipped along the wave tops like shining silver coins. "These are the ghosts of treasures ost…

— John Steinbeck

“When Jean and his mother left Etreuilles, Monsieur Sureau had gathered for them great boxfuls of hawthorn and of snowballs which Madame Santeuil had…

— Marcel Proust

“How can a butcher's son be filthy rich?" Annabelle asked. "Unless the population of London is consuming far more beef and bacon than I'm…

— Lisa Kleypas

Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.

— Sallust