"Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a ..."
- Agatha Christie
"It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul."
- Paul Hoffman
"I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language."
"The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle"
- Steven Magee