From "The Hippopotamus" by S. Fry

"In that awful little room with its imponderably hateful smell, a smell that took all the dignity and colour and strength away from his family and all the dignity and colour and strength away from him, his expensive luggage and his small blue passport, in that dreadful stinking room he swore a new loyalty, to his people – his stupid, moaning, helpless and cosmically irritating people, whose religion he scorned, whose culture he despised, whose mannerisms and prejudices he abominated".