Sherry...a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.
Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale. - George Henry Borrow
Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale.
- George Henry Borrow
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands. - George Henry Borrow
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman. - George Henry Borrow
There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.
Translation is at best an echo. - George Henry Borrow
Translation is at best an echo.
We must walk before we run. - George Henry Borrow
We must walk before we run.
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. - George Henry Borrow
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. - George Henry Borrow
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
Two great talkers will not travel far together. - George Henry Borrow
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep. - George Henry Borrow
I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
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