Product Description

There's nothing much left to feel good about these days if you're British, but one of the few things where we all agree that we're still a world leader is our defining sense of humour. Thematically covering every subject imaginable, from God to dogs, this collection will be the seminal gathering of our national wit and a picture of who we are as a nation - a monument to our monumental silliness. 'An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.' This work includes George Mikes Jane Austen, Pam Ayres, Alan Bennett, Jeffrey Bernard, John Betjeman, Jo Brand, Craig Brown, Winston Churchill, Alan Clark, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Connolly, Peter Cook, Tommy Cooper, Noel Coward, Quentin Crisp, Les Dawson, Stephen Fry, A.A. Gill, Stella Gibbons, W.S. Gilbert, Joyce Grenfell, Tony Hancock, Harry Hill, Jerome K. Jerome, Boris Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Maureen Lipman, Spike Milligan, Nancy Mitford, Frank Muir, Eric Morecambe, Joe Orton, David Renwick, Brian Sewell, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Edith Sitwell, Frank Skinner, Arthur Smith, Sue Townsend, Peter Ustinov, Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, Kenneth Williams, P.G. Wodehouse, and Victoria Wood.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24431 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

Review
"'An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.' George Mikes"

From the Publisher
The definitive collection of our nation’s funniest quotations from the bestselling author of The Funniest Thing You Never Said

About the Author
Rosemarie Jarski has spent half a lifetime collecting quotes and possesses an astounding breadth of knowledge when it comes to compiling quotations, as her numerous bestselling books testify. She is also a successful screenwriter and spends time working in the UK and USA.

Customer Reviews

Wit? Nit!
The title is ambiguous; is it the Wit or the British that is Great? This is a puzzle because neither, today, can be considered great if this book is anything to go by. The mind boggles that someone with such an un-British name dares to pontificate on what is both British and supposedly witty or otherwise. The problem is that this book offers thousands of one-liners, for the most part taken out of context, which spoils half the fun.

Put it this way: not once did I fall off the lavatory throne to roll on the floor, laughing. Perhaps a dozen times it raised a glimmer of a smile. And the quality of the paper made it unsuitable for other lavatory uses.

Tommy Docherty has the best quote
Loved the one on Tommy Docherty. I promisedI would take Rotherham out of the second division, I did -into the third division.
Typical British Wit !!!