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“England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.”

Mind May Stills Country Found Left England Faults Thee Manners

Book:The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence

Source: The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence

“Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.”

“England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the moment it is served. Elsewhere it is comme il faut to wait until everybody has helped himself to everything and until everything on everybody's plate is stone cold.”

World Country Moments Fall Waiting Cold Stones England Manners Elsewhere Plates Etiquette Civilised Stone Cold

Author:Virginia Graham

“You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.”

Women Virtue Devil England Finished Manners Sarcastic Sensible Scotland Thrice

Author:Fanny Burney

“I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.”

Knows World Trying War Country Wonder Class England Manners War Of The Worlds Germany World War Ii World War I Coats Mink Mink Coats

Author:Arthur Wimperis

“On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.”

People Food England Tables Cooking Manners Culinary Continents Good Manners Good Food Table Manners

Author:George Mikes

“In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.”

Ifs Involved England Police Manners Good Man Get Involved Good Manners

Author:Russell Brand

“We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?”

“We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.”

Wells Nations England Dresses Manners Bother Etiquette

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.”

Source: How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide

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