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

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them they lack the joy that the Irish have.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art thinking that except for their tremendous gardens that the English are not primarily visual artists and are in nearly unsurpassable ways literary.

Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world its ayatollah deliverer and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk Pop Art Jeff Koons Marcel Duchamp Francis Bacon and Catholicism.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

The English light is so very subtle so very soft and misty that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.