On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners