The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.
There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.
Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!
You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.
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