We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Today we are fighting in a country which was contributed a great deal to our cultural inheritance, a country rich in monuments which...illustrate the growth of the civilization which is ours. We are bound to respect those monuments so far as war allows.

I was just like, 'You know what? If I want to write about the culture war, I don't wanna be a pawn in it anymore.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.