I love the sad songs with their maudlin self-deprecating almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman they make a lot of sense.

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side he was kind of a rather stiff disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.