The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I enjoyed English football from day one when I was with Southampton. — Toby Alderweireld Copy Share Image
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country. — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from… — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way. — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone. — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done. — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was… — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“We English have no very strong attachment to the soil, we can make ourselves at home in any part of the world,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I… — Lakshmi Mittal Copy Share Image
The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that… — Damon Hill Copy Share Image
I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“English: Ô, take this eager dance you fool, don’t brandish your stick at me. I have several reasons to travel on, on… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The number of those who have to be assimilated to the majority is not too high. It remains small compared with the… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
'Hot Fuss' was all based on fantasy. The English influences, the makeup - they were what I imagined rock was. I'm a… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
When I first came to this country, I didn't know how to speak English. — Wilmer Valderrama Copy Share Image
