Jeremy Paxman Quotes Page 2

“The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.”

“The English at least have the saving grace of being able to laugh at themselves. Which must be based upon a profound self-assurance.”

“The English do not take pride in the achievements of their governments: they know they consist at best of ‘characters’ and at worst of charlatans. If a British Prime Minister appeared on television and began addressing them as American Presidents address their people (‘Mah feller Mericans’ as Richard Nixon used to say) their audience would fall about laughing.”