The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
Source: The Selective Ego, Ego 1; ed. Tim Beaumont, 1976, Entry for 14 Oct. 1932.
-- James Agate, (Sep 9 1877-1947), English critic, author; He was a veteran theater columnist who wrote a nine-volume autobiography, Ego, 1935.