Belgium : A country invented by the British to annoy the French.
- Charles de Gaulle
You can't be a Real Country unless you have a Beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a Beer
- Frank Zappa

No one who speaks German could be an evil man.
- The Simpsons

This is one race of people (the Irish) for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
- Quotation mistakenly attributed to Sigmund Frued, origins unknown
The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.
- Samuel Johnson

Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV. And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything foreign.
- Unknown