U Quotes

London is a roost for every bird.

Land of hope and glory Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee who are borne of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set God who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.

Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change such as Bernard Shaw Keir Hardie Lloyd George Selfridge or Disraeli you will find that they are not really English at all but Irish Scotch Welsh American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes sometimes great changes. But secretly or openly they always deplore them.

Where there is one Englishman there is a garden. Where there are two Englishmen there will be a club. But this does not mean any falling off in the number of gardens. There will be three. The club will have one too.

We are articulate but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence he sometimes says something.

Oh it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!

George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.