The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.