The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.
To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.