21 Extremely British Pets

    These pets are more British than a tea sandwich.

    1. "I always think there's something rather foreign about high spirits at breakfast."

    2. "You're too tall to be a footman. No footman should be above 6 foot 1."

    3. "I have no time for training young hobbledehoys."

    4. "Oh heavens girl. You're building a fire, not inventing it."

    5. "I would rather be put to death than run a tea shop."

    6. "When you give these little people power, it goes to their heads like strong drink."

    7. "At my age, one must ration one's excitement."

    8. "Have you done something jolly with your hair?"

    9. "I love you...hard as it is for an Englishman to say those words."

    10. "I want the pleasure of saying 'I told you so'."

    11. "One can't go to pieces at the death of every foreigner. We'd be in a constant state of collapse."

    12. "Stop flannelling and get on."

    13. "No Englishman would ever dream of dying in another person's house."

    14. "Don't be defeatist, dear. It's very middle class."

    15. "Vulgarity is no substitute for wit."

    16. "An aristocrat without servants is as about as useful as a glass hammer."

    17. "No fortune? He's lucky not to be playing the violin in Leicester Square."

    18. "Marriage is a long business. There's no getting out of it for our kind of people."

    19. "The truth is neither here nor there. It's the look of the thing that matters."

    20. "If you're turning American on me I'll go downstairs."

    21. "I must skedaddle."

    H/T to Downton Abbey for the quotes, and WeKnowMemes for the bearded dragons.