Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.
I once blurted out that I found it impossible to bond with my son Winston because I was too tired. I mean how bloody awful does that sound? What a tosser!
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.