Quotes About Culture

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain, - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinese is peculiar.

An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

England is a nation of voyeurs.

Snobbery - the "pox Britannica"

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

In England I would rather be a man, a horse, a dog or a woman, in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings.

What should they know of England, who only England know?

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.

The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans, but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.

Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.

The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce.

For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian, Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations, He remains an Englishman.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.