“Yes, there is something distinctive and recognizable in English civilization. It is somehow bound up with solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar-boxes.” FieldsCivilizationTownsEnglishRoadsBreakfastsSundaysEnglish CivilizationEnglish Culture Book:The Lion and The Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius Source: The Lion and The Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
“In America, they use exclamation marks to make everything terrific, in France to make everything terrible, but here in England we don't use them at all.” English LanguagePunctuationStiff Upper LipEnglish PeopleEnglish Culture Author:Neel Burton