Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

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.

The British are so funny.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

In England we are sort of very awkward.

I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

Every Brit I met had the best sense of humor. They're hilarious: very dry and witty.

I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.

That's my family; we have a very British sense of humour, very dry.

A lot of British comedy feels foreign rather than feeling universal.

The great British public is renowned throughout the world for its sense of humour.

It's our English mentality to worry about the weather.

I feel that Britain is a rather self-deprecating nation: you're almost considered egotistical to say you're good at anything.

I always think British films work best when they're very honest to a particular part of England. 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' was true to middle-class people, 'Bend it Like Beckham' was faithful to the Indian community, and 'Billy Elliot' was faithful to the miners.

I'm sure there's some sort of cynicism or fatalism in Ireland and England. We are fatalistic here, and sometimes we need to be shaken out of that.

I'm English. All we do is blush.

I like English spirit.

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.