George Borrow Quotes on Culture
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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.
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There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people.
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He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is, good ale.