Quote by Thomas Hearne

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

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

And still, laughter is akin to weeping.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

— 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

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought,…

— Anne Rice

We learn to laugh from the cultures that suffered most - from the Russians, Poles, and Irish - not from Sweden or France (the…

— Tom Malinowski

The English as a race are not worth saving!

— Jack Straw

The British are so funny.

— Rose Byrne

When the response to comedy becomes cheering instead of laughing, that is so irritating. It's the worst.

— Paul F. Tompkins

The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

— Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

Laughter has no foreign accent.

— Paul B. Lowney