TagAG Macdonell

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

AG Macdonell – England, Their England

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

AG Macdonell – England, Their England

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

AG Macdonell – England, Their England

The game of cricket exists for its own sake, not for the score at the end of it.

AG Macdonell – England, Their England

To an Englishman, liberty does not mean freedom to do what he likes, but the right to do what he ought.

AG Macdonell – England, Their England

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

AG Macdonell – England, Their England

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

AG Macdonell – England, Their England

In every Englishman, there is hidden somewhere or other a passion for the countryside.

AG Macdonell – England, Their England

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

AG Macdonell – England, Their England

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

AG Macdonell – England, Their England