"The English never smash
in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner".
sir winston churchill (1874-1965)
"We shall go on till
the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air,
we shall defend our island what ever the cost may be. We shall fight on
the beaches and we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight
in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We will
never surrender".
(Extract from speech delivered on 13th May 1940)
sir winston churchill (1874-1965)
"the Battle of Britain
is about to begin... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and
so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth should
last a thousand years, men will still say: This was their finest hour".
(Extract from speech delivered
on 18th June 1940)
george bernard shaw (1856-1950) - irish playwright
"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".
lord byron (1788-1824) - english poet
"The English winter -
ending in July, to recommence in August".
ernest dupuy - american historian
"The initiation of a series of events which would lead a revitalized
Anglo-Saxon-Norman people to a world leadership more extensive than that
of ancient Rome".
(Regarding the Battle of Hastings)
d. h. lawrence
"I don't like England
very much, but the English do seem a rather lovable people. They have
such a great gentleness".
george orwell (1903-1950) - english author
"The gentleness of the
English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic. You notice
it the moment you set foot on English soil. It is a land where conductors
are good tempered and policemen carry no revolvers. In no country inhabited
by white men is it easier to shove people off the pavement".
gilbert k chesterton (1874-1936) - english
novelist and poet
"But we are the people
of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us by.
But never forget".
samual johnson
"He that wishes to see
his country robbed of its rights can not be a patriot".
