| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 535 |
| AUTHOR: | George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) |
| QUOTATION: | There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man of Destiny, one act play, in his Complete Plays with Prefaces, vol. 1, p. 743 (1962). Napoleon is speaking. |
| SUBJECTS: | England |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | WORKS: | George Bernard Shaw Collection | | |
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