The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.
Karel CapekAll the year round there is spring, all through life is youth; there is always something which may flower.
Karel CapekThe English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.
Karel CapekRelativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.
Karel Capek