Subject: Places » England (Page 4)

The English contribution to world cuisine – the chip.

(1939 – ) English actor, comedian, writer & producer

I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold, I almost got married.

(1920 – 2006) American actress

My parents were English; we were too poor to be British.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

(1908 – 1999) English writer

Brexit is a terrible name… sounds like cereal you eat when you are constipated.

(1978 – ) English stand-up comedian & actress

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realize how much we have in common.

(1957 – ) English actor, writer, journalist, comedian & film director

I’m in favor of liberalized immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants; I’d let just about everybody in except the English.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

I have to spend so much time explaining to Americans that I am not English and to Englishmen that I am not American that I have little time left to be Canadian.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

Englishmen think over a compliment for a week, so that by the time they pay it, it is addled, like a bad egg.

(1863 – 1930) British novelist & playwright

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine; it is the country with the worst food after Finland.

(1932 – ) French statesman & president

The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.

Irish music columnist & journalist

English? Who needs that? I’m never going to England.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

They're mad because they lost the Revolutionary War, and they should be, because there was only like nine of us.

(1970 – ) American actor, producer & stand up comedian

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

(1904 – 1963) American journalist

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theater unless he or she has bronchitis.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic