Towards people with whom they disagree the English gentry, or at any rate that small cross section of them which I have seen, are tranquilly good-natured. It is not comme il faut to establish the supremacy of an idea by smashing it in the face of all the people who try to contradict it. The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.Margaret Halsey (1910- ) With Malice Toward Some, 1938