Skip to content

“An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.”

This quote has no known author and is recorded as an anonymous proverb.

About this quote

Shaw's joke is that the English moral reputation rests on being uncomfortable rather than on being good, which is a jab at a national self-image. The line is quoted whenever somebody describes the English as priggish without being able to say exactly why.

Topics

Related quotes

Quotes that share a topic with this one.