Always Quote by Graeme Base

One of the strongest prejudices that one has to overcome when one visits Australia is that created by the weird jargon than passes for…

— Valerie Desmond

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

— Geoffrey Rush

What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love…

— Danielle de Niese

I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can…

— Teresa Palmer

I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.

— Nick Cave

The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English.

— Tom Hopper

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

— Radha Mitchell

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

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't…

— Peter Porter

There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.

— Guy Pearce

“The story of the English writing system is so intriguing, and the histories behind individual words so fascinating, that anyone who dares to treat…

— David Crystal

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

— Fred Schneider