Difficult Quote by Cord Jefferson

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody…

— Pearl S. Buck

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

— Marshall McLuhan

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as…

— Peter Ackroyd

The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

— Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

English people have a great sense of humour.

— Demba Ba

Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.

— Stephen Merchant

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

— Samuel Pepys

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

— Mark Twain

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

— George Mikes

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself;…

— Isabella Bird

British people have a really sophisticated sense of humour, because we're exposed to much more than Europeans and Americans, not least in our literary…

— Frankie Boyle