Quotes Archive

England has three great things: tea, that comes from India, and Oscar Wilde and me, who are Irishmen. George Bernard Shaw Favorite0

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. Malcolm Bradbury Favorite0

Not to be English was for my family so terrible a handicap as almost to place the sufferer in the permanent invalid class. Osbert Lancaster Favorite0

We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners. We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians. Halvard Lange Favorite0

England is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than sex. Jackie Mason Favorite0

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. George Mikes Favorite0

Humour is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. Malcolm Muggeridge Favorite0

In left-wing circles it is always always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would

In England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. Oscar Wilde Favorite0

On the Continent, people have good food; in England, people have good table manners. George Mikes Favorite0