Mandeville and Wenlock are the mascots for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics
QuotaBillsNo man is an Ireland. - Richard Daley
Scotland is the Canada of England. - Rainn Wilson
He was not only a bore; he bored for England. - Malcolm Muggeridge
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker
English Wrestling Champion: A lord of the ring - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Women in London must have learned not to breathe. - Irene Trimble
The English never draw a line without blurring it. - Winston Churchill
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. - Lord Burleigh
The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese
Britain's goal is not to survive, but to prevail. - Winston Churchill
He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. - Winston Churchill
Germlish: Training done using a mixture of English & German - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
You only have to survive in England and all is forgiven you. - Alan Bennett
The English winter - ending in July, to recommence in August. - Lord Byron
The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable. - Malcolm Muggeridge
The English have three vegetables and two of them are cabbage. - Walter Page
What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north. - Robert Gordon Menzies
Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki. - Nigel Starmer-Smith
There'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood. - Bob Hope
Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland - rich and thick. - Samuel Beckett
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day. - W Somerset Maugham
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. - Alexander Woollcott
When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London. - Bette Midler
I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World. - George Best
Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. - Malcolm Muggeridge
There are ways of singing in English that are not just the same as in French. - Coeur de Pirate
The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined. - Arthur Murphy
Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead
In the Moscow Olympics, Lasse Viren came in fifth and ran a champion's race. - David Coleman
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
Humour is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. - Malcolm Muggeridge
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. - George Mikes
There's nothing like an English weirdo. We have the best nutters in the world. - Sharon Osbourne
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe
He won the bronze medal in the 1976 Olympics, so he's used to being out in front. - David Coleman
I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining. - Groucho Marx
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's backyard. - Jesse Owens
The noblest prospect which a Scotsman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. - Samuel Johnson
Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. - Thomas Kettle
Diatribe: 1. An extinct race; 2. The group of native Brits that worship the late Princess Diana. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
Oats: A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting. - Pierce Brosnan
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. - Oscar Wilde
In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor. - Martin Amis
I keep fit. Every morning, I do a hundred laps of an Olympic-sized swimming pool - in a small motor launch. - Peter Cook
Larry Gogan: 'With what town in Britain is Shakespeare associated?'
Contestant: 'Hamlet'. - Larry Gogan
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. - Jay Leno
If you find yourself saying, "But I can't speak English...", try adding the word "... yet". - Jane Revell
I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry, and he's got Mad Power Disease. - Paula Abdul
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde
If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson
The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor." - Hal Eaton
There was a fire at the main Inland Revenue office in London today, but it was put out before any serious good was done. - Ronnie Corbett
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad.
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. - G K Chesterton
Isn't it a very curious thing that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland an' the English brought in the fleas. - Frank McCourt
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. - John Wycliffe
Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur. - Don McCullin
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it. - Adam Ant
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. - Oscar Wilde
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin
Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. - Marvin Olasky
Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. - Bernie Taupin