English Quotes · Page 23

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

— George Bernard Shaw

Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

— Honore de Balzac

'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.

— Jamie Cullum

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

— James Otis

Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.

— Jonathan Meades

Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.

— Paul Watson

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always…

— W. G. Sebald

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

— Gustave Courbet

People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can…

— Vinny Guadagnino

“Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to…

— Robin Flower

The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight…

— Michael Servetus

People who use chew instead of you, or misspell words on purpose because they think it sounds better, thanks for disrespecting the…

— Nathan Schwake

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She…

— Chris Abani

Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English,…

— Juanes

In 1986, I was attacked in the street as I helped Neil Mullarkey from the Comedy Store Players to put up posters.…

— Paul Merton

The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their…

— P. J. O'Rourke

It must be something extraordinary to be able to say to yourself that the happiness of every French person is in your…

— Kylian Mbappe

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls…

— Henry Miller

My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

— Sam Heughan

I get the sense that the British do not like to look at things on the bright side of life. Maybe it…

— Ana Patricia Botin

There's something in people's character, particularly the British character, about unfairness. They don't like it.

— John McDonnell

“Remember that lettuce doesn’t grow on a spruce; and it also doesn’t rhyme with it.”

— Jakub Marian

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

— Winston Churchill

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional…

— Mamata Banerjee

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.

— John Lawson

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

— Richard Flanagan

My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous.

— Robert Sean Leonard

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

— George Orwell

They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur…

— Jean Froissart

“Only an Englishman of Morgan's class could call a queer suicide with overtones of financial wrongdoing a "muddle".”

— James Lear

“ "Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.”

— Beryl Markham

I shouldn't say it, but I found that the French can be the most arrogant people in the world if they want…

— Margaret Trudeau

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

— Anonymous

By the end of my BA, I was still not good in English, but I went on to enroll for an MA…

— Ravish Kumar

I dont ever educate people by teaching English, I just make them realize what really is it? and nothing else.

— Vikrant Parsai

“The French have the right respect for dogs--in France we chiens get to go to lunch and dinner anytime, anywhere.”

— Sheron Long

In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.

— Cat Deeley

The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth.

— David E. Goldberg

English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes.

— Trinny Woodall

Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

— Irvine Welsh