Quotes About British Humour

#1. Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it.

Charlotte Church

#2. British humour is very cruel. It's my favourite kind of humour; if it isn't cruel and funny it doesn't really cut the cake for me.

Jason Sellards

#3. I love British voicing and British humour in general. I'm a huge Ricky Gervais fan.

McG

#4. What did the soup say to the tea plate?
"You're too shallow for me. I like deep dish to dip right into!" I still keep my British humour in good taste. No room for egos or rumours.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#5. I think British humour is very cruel, and gay humour is very cruel. I think the two go hand-in-hand and that's why they mix so well in England. I think that's why you get so many gay comedians in England that are accepted so well because British humour is very cruel. I love it.

Jason Sellards

#6. Some people just don't find their Prince Charming straight away, they have to search for him.

Charlotte Fallowfield

#7. The very sight of a daffodil still makes me shiver, because spring in the north of England is always so bitter.

Bea Davenport

#8. Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British

Ben Mitchell

#9. 1lb beefstak, with
1pt bitter beer
every 6 hours.
1 ten-mile walk every morning.
1 bed at 11 sharp every night.
And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.

Jerome K. Jerome

#10. I grinned. I'm anybody's for a cuppa and a biscuit.

David Stuart Davies

#11. A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself? Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff.

Douglas Adams

#12. 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.

Nicole Scherzinger

#13. The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be.

Bill Bryson

#14. People still talk about a British sense of humour, or French slapstick or how the Germans have no sense of humour - and it's just rubbish. I do strongly feel that we are all the bloody same.

Eddie Izzard

#15. The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

Quentin Crisp

#16. I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

Tibor Fischer

#17. Grandma's house had the atmosphere of a Tupperware box left out in the sun. Like a tropical flower, she had to be kept warm and moist at all times, or she would wilt and die.

Matthew Crow

#18. I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.

Prince Charles

#19. Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?'
'It's like having an operation,' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over.

Malcolm Bradbury

#20. All the best pubs are built on a hill, so you can slope in and roll out.

Benny Bellamacina

#21. Always skip to the pub to enjoy your barley and hops

Benny Bellamacina

#22. My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.

Michael Haneke

#23. At no point during the making of this book have I inverted my penis although I did go to Blackpool which turned out to be almost as painful.

Matt Rudd

#24. Q. Why don't the British panic?
A. They do, but very quietly. It is impossible for the naked eye to tell their panic from their ecstasy.

George Mikes

#25. A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

Tom Hooper

#26. I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.

Ben Aaronovitch

#27. The whole plan's so high on the cheese factor it's practically Stilton

Zadie Smith

#28. It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#29. Youir're doing this wrong.

Will Advise

#30. Mincemeat is decidedly British in its nature and can therefore be disregarded entirely where most civilized palates are concerned.

Clayton Smith

#31. And now for something completely different . . .

John Cleese