“There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.” DoeFightingPrinciplesSupportCuttingKingsRepublicanEnglandPatrioticLoyalBullyEnglishmenManly Author:George Bernard Shaw
“When you cut it up, put the pieces in your mouth and swallowed them, the British hamburger shaped itself to the bottom on your stomach like ballast, while interacting with your gastric juices to form an incipient belch of enormous potential, an airship which had been inflated in a garage. This belch, when silently released, would cause people standing twenty yards away to start examining the soles of their shoes. The vocalized version sounded like a bag of tools thrown into a bog.” PeopleFunnyFormCausesPiecesCuttingMouthsStandingToolsEnglandTwentiesBottomShoesBritishEnormousVersionsThrownBagsStomachYardsJuiceGarageExaminingInteractingHamburgersBogsBallastGastricAirships Book:Falling Towards England: (Unreliable Memoirs Continued) Source: Falling Towards England: (Unreliable Memoirs Continued)
“If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.” IfsTwoWould BePeaceCuttingDangerEnglandThirtyThroatMulticulturalismDespotismMulticulturalPeace And Happiness Book:Treatise on Toleration Source: Treatise on Toleration
“There's so many kids out there and it's such a cut-throat world. I've seen a lot of my mates, you know, who are better players than me at a certain age, and they're not in football now.” KnowsWorldKidsAgeCertainCuttingPlayerFootballEnglandThroatMates Author:Frank Lampard
“I'm sure that growing up in the Midwest played a role in my chronic escapism. In fact, before I lived in France, I lived in Japan, England, and Bulgaria. I was determined to experience other places and cultures, particularly because I had the perception that I'd been cut off from these experiences as a child.” ChildrenFactsCultureRolesGrowing UpCuttingGrowingPerceptionEnglandDeterminedFranceJapanEscapismMidwestBulgaria Author:Danielle Trussoni
“We [with Alix MacKenzie] had decided we needed further training, and certainly Leach was the one we turned to. So we went to England this summer and we took examples of our work along with us and showed them to Bernard Leach and told him what we were trying to do. And of course he took one look at our work and he said - very quickly he said, "I'm sorry, we're full up," and this was his way of politely saying, you just don't make the cut.” WayTryingLooksSaidCoursesCuttingExampleNeededSummerTrainingDecidedEnglandSorryI'm Sorry Author:Warren MacKenzie
“Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England....At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences....I felt that sooner or later the market had to break.” WorldMadeActionStrongFeltDecisionMoneyBreakDemocracyTakenCuttingNew YorkSpringConsequenceEnglandRateChiefsGovernorsReservesSooner Or LaterNew World OrderSpursFederal ReserveUnwiseDecisions Made Author:Bernard Baruch