"What good is running
if one is on the wrong road."
foreign observer (1373)
“The English are so filled
with their own greatness and have won so many big victories that they
have come to believe they cannot lose. In battle they are the most confident
nation in the world”.
italian visitor (1500)
"The English are great
lovers of themselves and of everything belonging to them. They think that
there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England;
and when a handsome foreigner walks by they say “he looks like an
Englishman."
foreign emissary (at the court
of henry viii)
"The English have an
antipathy to foreigners, and imagine that they never come into their island
but to make themselves master of it and to usurp their goods."
