We are a nation of governesses.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman

The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.

I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.