Alas! Wigan Pier had been demolished, and even the spot where it used to stand is no longer certain. — George Orwell

We spend our lives in abusing England but grow very angry when we hear a foreigner saying exactly the same things.

The modern English literary world, at any rate the high-brow section of it, is a sort of poisonous jungle where only weeds can flourish.

Tea, the Englishman's opium.