6 Quotes About British Humor

Bowen looked nervously about for peasants. It would be unendurable if they all turned out to be full of instinctive wisdom and natural good manners and unself-conscious grace and a deep, articulate understanding of death. Kingsley Amis

The German pilot had come up and was standing by smiling as Mr. Parker Pyne finished answering a long interrogation which he had not understood." What have I said?" he asked of the German"That your father's Christian name is Tourist, that your profession is Charles, that the maiden name of your mother is Baghdad, and that you have come from Harriet. Agath Christie

There were the years– years of childhood and innocence– when I had believed that carminative meant– well, carminative. And now, before me lies the rest of my life– a day, perhaps, ten years, half a century, when I shall know that carminative means windtreibend. Aldous Huxley

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship Malcolm Bradbury

Stop fretting and eat your Madeira Cake.. Diane Samuels