“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.”
Winston Churchill
“I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing.”
“Yesterday American and British troops handed out food to hundreds of Iraqis. Not surprisingly, the Iraqis handed the British food back.”
Conan O'Brien
“I think that you'll find that Billy Connolly is British.”
Billy Connolly
“You're my first British visitor,”
Oprah Winfrey
“Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't”
Stephen Leacock
“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”
Wallace Stevens
