English Quotes · Page 25

“The manner in which the exclusionary nature of the English language is used in knowledge prodution separates us as humans.”

— Malebo Sephodi

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

— Ray Bradbury

English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is…

— Jane Gardam

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

— Margaret Halsey

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

— Agnes Repplier

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

— Liz Williams

Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.

— Mary Howitt

England is still a place where a naughty boy who comes from nothing can live his dream.

— Raheem Sterling

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

I wanted to act when I was young. When I was 12, I asked the head of English at my school, 'Can…

— Alison Moyet

We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera…

— Wadah Khanfar

“The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt…

— Virginia Woolf

I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so…

— Giada De Laurentiis

In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like…

— Sandra Cisneros

They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in…

— David Sedaris

When Im in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football.…

— Joe Scarborough

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Culturally, socially, there are a lot of similarities between the Kiwis and the English.

— Kane Williamson

There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.

— Melvyn Bragg

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.

— Colin Wilson

A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

— Wilfred Owen

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

— Tom Stoppard

“I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.”

— M.T. Anderson

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

— Diane Ladd

I'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.

— David Lammy

“I remember a song we used to sing, "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean." But I thought it was, "Columbus, Jump in the…

— Lisa See

Math and English must of had a relationship. How else did we get Algebra then?

— Anonymous

Most Britons, and most Americans as well, either thought the Globe was in Stratford-Upon-Avon or didn't know where it was at all.

— Sam Wanamaker

“Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.”

— Mark Dery

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

— Jilly Cooper

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea…

— Jefferson Mays

When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because…

— Brandon Flowers

I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.

— Violante Placido

The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.

— Stephen Kinzer

The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

— Stendhal

I've always appreciated English football and the Premier League, I've always liked it.

— Pavel Nedved

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

— Randall Jarrell

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

— Alain Prost