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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1111, e-artnow
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.