The English are always ready to admire anything so long as…

“Whenever you look in front and see a lot of people ahead of you, take time to look at the long queue behind you.…

— Dr Emmanuel Moore Abolo

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness…

— George Mikes

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants. Then if something…

— Catherine Deneuve

It was life under the Soviet system - we were struggling with every big problem. Publicly, my parents had to queue up to buy…

— Jaak Kilmi

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for…

— Julian Baggini

In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to…

— Francis Schaeffer

Everyone queue up!' Malfoy roared to the crowd. 'Harry Potter's giving out signed photos!

— Anonymous

When McDonald's opened up in Moscow - I happened to be there when it opened and wandered in. And the Russians were queuing three…

— John Gimlette

If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to…

— Julian Barnes

It's interesting when you're doing signing sessions with other writers and you look at the queues at each table and you can see definite…

— Martin Amis

I do everything via email. Which in turn works as my tickler file and prioritization queue. I start at the top every morning and…

— Mark Cuban

But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a…

— Peter Cosgrove

To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered…

— Terry Eagleton

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

— Calvin Trillin