I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I love the English people - if you don't want to speak, you don't speak. And I'm quite like that sometimes. — Sophie Cookson Copy Share Image
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
When I lived in London I didn't know any English people, apart from my wife. So my nationality was never relevant. I… — Jack Savoretti Copy Share Image
For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter. — Duff Cooper Copy Share Image
The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I am a Muslim, yes, but I am also very English. People don't realise how proud I am to be representing my… — Moeen Ali Copy Share Image
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to have my uncle there as he has been able to guide me through it a bit so I was… — Sean Longstaff Copy Share Image
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I am learning English and even try to talk in English with people. I don't care if people are laughing at me.… — Shehnaaz Gill Copy Share Image
One of the strengths of the U.K. is its ability to attract very highly talented people from all over the places, but… — Alain Dehaze Copy Share Image
We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans. — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
I really do think that in life, people just want to talk about their problems. In particular, Irish people and English people… — CMAT Copy Share Image
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't think anything's cruel - if you're so sensitive these days that you see cruelty everywhere, unfortunately every time a comedian… — Roy Hodgson Copy Share Image
I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
There's this very romantic vision of Ireland, but I grew up in a place where it's not very fun to grow up.… — CMAT Copy Share Image
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
“the people in this country who feel most like foreigners to each other are English people who’ve just arrived and the ones… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them… — Klaus Fuchs Copy Share Image
When I tweet in English, Spanish people get mad at me. When I tweet in Spanish, English people get mad at me.… — Ricky Rubio Copy Share Image
English people ... are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
People don't contest that I'm British as a black man, but they do contest that I'm English. Too many people are going… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
