The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think Americans have always been pretty outspoken. I always found that if you had emotions in England, it's like, 'Here's a… — Rosanna Arquette Copy Share Image
Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English. — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I'd love to have been in things like 'The Jewel in the Crown,' but of course they're terribly old English. I can… — Julia McKenzie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
The craziest part of being on tour is being overseas and having crazed fans so far away from home. They don't speak… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
I think Brits are more confident probably, and don't rely on self help in the way a lot of Americans do. But… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food… — Ben Elliot Copy Share Image
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
“There is possibly no insult so calculated to sting the English as the suggestion that they may at any time be considered… — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
The big problem in translating is that we had to translate the language. People may not know that we record the podcast… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
I like the British public. There is something in this country called tall poppy syndrome. You're good but you're not that good,… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
