Subject: Places » England (Page 3)

In Scotland we have mixed feelings about Global Warming…. because we all get to sit on the mountains and watch the English drown.

(1972 – ) Scottish comedian

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

We’re not used to weather in June in this country.

professional football player, coach & executive

Trains in Britain can be late for all sorts of reasons: speed restrictions, livestock on the track, or a totally substandard rail infrastructure that’s publicly funded, privately run and answerable to no one… all sorts of reasons.

(1979 – ) English comedian & actor

I’m English, but I want to let you know that even though I’m English, I’m not here to solve a murder mystery.

comedian

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

England is better only because I stand out there as ‘unusual.’

(1956 – ) American comedian

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

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands… but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist

The plain truth is, that he was a most intolerable ruffian, a disgrace to human nature, and a blot of blood and grease upon the history of England.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

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

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

(1903 – 1966) English writer

There are three golden rules for parliamentary speakers: “Stand up. Speak up. Shut up.”

(1855 – 1949) British politician

Boy George is all England needs – another queen who can't dress.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

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

(1932 – ) French statesman & president

The train system is so chronic now, that any journey you undertake by train in Britain is identical to the one taken by Omar Sharif in Doctor Zhivago.

(1958 – 2006) English radio performer, stand-up comic & writer

The French, they say, live to eat; the English, on the other hand, eat to die.

(1949 – ) English novelist

The president of France said that the English are arrogant with their refusal to learn foreign languages; at least, I think that’s what he said… it all just sounded like “haw-he-haw-he-haw-he-haw.”

(1973 – ) English writer & stand-up comedian

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

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

(1912 – 1987) Hungarian-born British author

Keegan Fills Schmeichel’s Gap With Seaman