humour Archive
How does an Englishman know his wife has died?
Written on May 5, 2013
in Quotes
How does an Englishman know his wife has died? Sex is still the same, but the dishes are piling up in the sink. Favorite0
Englishmen are notorious lovers
Written on April 18, 2013
in Quotes
Englishmen are notorious lovers; it only takes the average man ten years to ask the woman he loves for a kiss. Sometimes he proposes to a girl in maybe a year and a half—but not marriage. Peter Cagney, The Book of Wit and Humour, 2596 Good news for British men: there have
Upper class, middle-class, lower class
Written on April 16, 2013
in Culture
Cleese: (In bowler hat, black jacket and pinstriped trousers) I look down on him (Indicates Barker) because I am upper-class. Barker: (Pork-pie hat and raincoat) I look up to him (Cleese) because he is upper-class; but I look down on him (Corbett) because he is lower-class. I am middle-class Corbett: (Cloth cap
Humour is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious
Written on April 16, 2013
in Quotes
Humour is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. Malcolm Muggeridge Favorite0
The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people
Written on April 15, 2013
in Quotes
The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people, agreeing with alacrity that they are neither successful nor clever, and only modestly claiming that they have a keener sense of humour, more robust common sense, and greater staying power as a nation than all the rest of the world put together. Quoted in: Fourth
