George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
dream lying people
People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.
preparation buying firsts
Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.
soul foreigners havens
Foreigners have souls; the English haven't.
weather two lovely
On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?" at least two hundred times a day, you are considered a bit dull.
funny baseball strong
They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.
humorous america people
The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.
two people doe
The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.
country australia needs
In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export a great deal of snobbery to Australia and still have enough to spare for their own, internal needs.
average australia facts
I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.
latin people greek
In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
tea together way
The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.
money needs need-money
To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.
funny sex water-bottles
Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.
reality people brave
THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.