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“London, dirty little pool of life”

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Behramji Malabari, born in 1853 in Mumbai, India, was a renowned Indian poet. His poetry, deeply influenced by Indian classical literature, also incorporated modern elements, reflecting the diversity and complexity of Indian society. more

“The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.”

England Cooking Average Teeth Hotel Englishmen Insulting Beam Beef Chewing Pudding Mustard Diabolical Bleakness

Author:Karel Capek

“Thirty millions, mostly fools.”

Humor Funny Millions Fool England Thirty Insulting

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Sheep with a nasty side.”

Sides England Sheep Nasty Insulting

Author:Cyril Connolly

“The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.”

Thinking Religion England Sincerity Insulting Incompetence

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.”

England Coward Insulting

Author:Eustache Deschamps

“Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.”

Thinking Should Writing Littles Said Written England Discussion Twelve Say Anything Jury Insulting Shopkeepers

Author:A. V. Dicey

“It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.”

Pay England Rounds Revolutionary Insulting

Author:Alfred Douglas

“All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.”

Ifs England Stuck Throat Englishmen Insulting Swallowing Plums

Author:W. C. Fields

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