Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.