Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?'
I get a lot more abuse in England. That's just a general English attitude. I did the same thing to famous people. It's just your instinct.
It's so English to hate L.A. I'd like to say I love it, but I don't. It's such a weird place. If it were my choice, I wouldn't spend a day there. Everything shuts at 11. And everyone thinks they're so crazy and wild and liberal, and they're not!
My mother and I were alike in one crucial respect: We may have been Russian by birth, but we were English in spirit. She was intensely reserved and private, and seldom showed what she was feeling.
The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?
I think that's just a general English attitude [being abusive]. I did the same thing to famous people.
It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.
Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.
The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.
