Englishman Quote by Julia Hartley-Brewer

A queue doesn't necessarily imply order and good manners among our fellow men. Usually it's just down to poor organisation, under-staffing and hopeless service…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

While we like to think queueing is unique to British culture, the truth is that we are mere amateurs. The old Soviet Union turned…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

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

I know as a nation we don't mind a queue, but queueing gives me time to think and this isn't always a good thing.

— Chris McCausland

We Brits are law abiding folk. We pride ourselves on our natural tendency to form an orderly queue rather than a scrum.

— Nick Boles

“A facetious if logical question comes into George's mind, from where he cannot tell, unless as a reaction to all this unwonted intensity. If…

— Julian Barnes

People get annoyed waiting for their turn in a queue but everyones turn comes.

— Robert D Dangoor

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

“Q I join the queue We move up nicely. I ask the lady in front What are we queuing for. 'To join another queue,'…

— Roger McGough

By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.

— Terence McKenna

The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.

— George Mikes

“Well, say you write a handler and it requires a lot of computation — that is, something that takes a long time to compute.…

— Eric Freeman