English Society Quotes

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

I became one of the stately homos of England.

We in England, divide our people commonly into four sorts, as gentlemen, citizens or burgesses, yeomen, and artificers or labourers.

The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and set some value on it, but the very idea of equality is strange and offensive to them. They do not dislike to have many people above them as long as they have some below them.

In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.

For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.