“Sherry…a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.”George Borrow book Wild WalesWild Wales (1862), ch. 38.
“There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.”George Borrow book LavengroPreface Lavengro (1851)
“There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?”George Borrow book LavengroSource: Lavengro (1851), Ch. 25