"In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce." - Domenico Caracciolo, attributed

"The maxim of the British people is 'Business as usual.'" - Sir Winston Churchill, speech (1914)

"An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one." - George Mikes, How to be an Alien

"England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humours." - George Santayana, Soliloquies in England

"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable." - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'

"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. . . . It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth, without making some other Englishman despise him." - George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role." - DEAN ACHESON, speech (1962)

"If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England."
- RUPERT BROOKE, The Soldier

"Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there."
- ROBERT BROWNING, Home-Thoughts, from Abroad

"The maxim of the British people is 'Business as usual'." - WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech (1914)

"England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses." - JOHN FLORIO, Second Frutes

"England is a nation of shopkeepers." - NAPOLEON I, quoted in Barry O'Meara's Napoleon at St. Helena

"England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors." - GEORGE SANTAYANA, Soliloquies in England

"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. . . It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth, without making some other Englishman despise him." - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Pygmalion

"What two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia?" - SYDNEY SMITH, quoted in Hesketh Pearson's The Smith of Smiths

"Hell is a city much like London - A populous and smoky city." - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Peter Bell the Third