George Bernard Shaw English Quotations

Two peoples separated by a common language' - About the Americans and English

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.

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.

He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity