Here are some proverbs and quotes about England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom.
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea.
An Englishman's home is his castle.At home an Englishman feels safe and can do what he wants.
British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it’s rarely funny.Steven Patrick Morrissey
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
England and the English. As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unlivable to them unless they have tea and puddings.George Orwell
English is the easiest language to speak badly.George Bernard Shaw
Heaven is Where:
The Police are British,
The Chefs are Italian,
The Mechanics are German,
The Lovers are French
and
It's all organized by the Swiss.
Hell is Where:
The Police are German,
The Chefs are British,
The Mechanics are French,
The Lovers are Swiss
and
It's all organized by the Italians.
If you took all the young men in southern England with those caps and that slouch and collected them all together in one room, you still wouldn't have enough IQ points to make a halfwit.Bill Bryson
Source: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
In Britain corn has meant any grain since the time of the Anglo-Saxons. It also came to signify any small round object, which explains the corns on your feet. Corned beef is so called because originally it was cured in kernels of salt. Because of the importance of maize in America, the word corn became attached to maize exclusively in the early eighteenth century.Bill Bryson
Source: At Home
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.P.D. James
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be 'too clever by half.' The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.John Major
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.Alice Walker
The English language is a rich verbal tapestry woven together from the tongues of the Greeks, the Latins, the Angles, the Klaxtons, the Celtics, and many more other ancient peoples, all of whom had severe drinking problems.Dave Barry
The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August.Lord Byron
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.Ronald Reagan
There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.Billy Connolly
