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I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots
The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth.
Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.
People in England are so bloody nosy.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.
You are part of our Great British family.
I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit.
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
My folks were English ... we were too poor to be British.
Once upon a time the English knew who they were.
Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.
I'm proud to be British.
Thirty million, mostly fools.
[When asked the population of England]
No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
Seriously. What was with British people? They didn't hug, and they sang their national anthem as if they ruled the world, which in fact was actually quite the opposite of true.
British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.
Rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.
I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty ... pretty British in our entertainment leads.
The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.
They don't talk the same language as us. I don't mean that they don't speak English, but that their minds are different. They're like animals, and because I hate the sight and sound of them, and because you're a Britisher, I'm telling you to get out now while the going's good.
Four guys from England took us all by the hand.
Lord, lord, the snobbery of the English!
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.
Englishmen must have an island.
The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!
The only thing separating Americans and Brits is a comman language.
I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.
Locals. They'll eventually get out. They're annoyed. Like when Americans go to the lake. And it's closed. 'Cause some kid pooped in the water.
Enemies! People these days don't have enemies! Not English people!
English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.
The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
When I'm in the U.K. I find myself using a lot of Britishisms.
We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.
When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.
The British and Americans are two people separated by a common language.
The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
English people ... are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of Australia, and that is all.
I would rather be British than just.
The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.
British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
England is a nation of shopkeepers.
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
Indians, schmindians!
We are very like the English, - are, in fact, English under a different sky.
Every Brit I met had the best sense of humor. They're hilarious: very dry and witty.
Well, I'm English.
It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me.
Said, and we laughed awkwardly, in the way British people do when they are experiencing great emotion. In
American audiences are affected by what the English people think.
As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.
Stupid British men, dropping women and seducing them in gardens.
Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, but I think that seeing us being so incessantly nasty on screen has a drip, drip, drip effect on the rest of them.
Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love.
My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade.
A lot of the time, the British press make me ashamed and embarrassed to be British. They give others the impression that the British are selfish, envious and bitter people, which is simply not true in my opinion. I think that British people in general are really nice and friendly.
Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.
I did live over in the U.K. for a while, so I guess I'm just naturally a Brit at heart.
If I was English I'd kill myself
The English are the people of consummate cant.
When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we talk about everywhere else.
British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.
were fewer of them in the UK than
The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.
One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.
The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.
In England we are sort of very awkward.
Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.
Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain.
The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
What fools American can be for England
The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.
I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits.
I'm English. We're about as tactful as a hot poker up the bum, most of the time.
You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
The Germans, a race eager for war.
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.
I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.
THE BRITISH NEVER WATCH BASEBALL!
When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.
England produces the best fat actors.
I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.
Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.
What? Don't British women know how to use their knees?