Subject: Places » England (Page 4)

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

I knew these Siamese twins; they moved to England, so the other one could drive.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Of course they have, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here talking to someone like you.

(1901 – 2000) English author

All Englishmen talk as if they’ve got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.

(1903 – 1966) English writer

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

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

An Englishman considers himself a self-made man, and thereby relieves the Almighty of a dreadful responsibility.

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

(1920 – 2006) American actress

I like the French/British relationship to a very old married couple who often think of killing each other but would never dream of divorce.

(1948 – ) British politician

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.

(1950 – ) English broadcaster, journalist & author

The old English belief that if a thing is unpleasant it is automatically good for you.

(1908 – 1986) English cartoonist, author, art critic & stage designer

The climate of England has been the world’s most powerful colonizing impulse.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

The English contribution to world cuisine – the chip.

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