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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 536
AUTHOR: François Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694–1778)
QUOTATION: They [the British] are like their own beer: froth on top, dregs at bottom, the middle excellent.
ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to VOLTAIRE (François Marie Arouet).—The Home Book of Quotations, ed. Burton Stevenson, 9th ed., p. 560, no. 1 (1964).
SUBJECTS: England