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.

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...

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

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...