Compunction Quote by Peter Ackroyd

The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

— Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

Americans have long had a difficult time accepting just how bleak the English are willing to get for laughs.

— Cord Jefferson

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 are a nation of consummate cant.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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 ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

— Martin Parr

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

— Samuel Pepys

In England, you laugh at yourselves; in France, we laugh at others.

— Lou Doillon

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

— William Hazlitt

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it…

— Desi Arnaz

English people have a great sense of humour.

— Demba Ba