A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Culturally, socially, there are a lot of similarities between the Kiwis and the English. — Kane Williamson Copy Share Image
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
England is still a place where a naughty boy who comes from nothing can live his dream. — Raheem Sterling Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Math and English must of had a relationship. How else did we get Algebra then? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
“The Essentials of English, book of choice of the older boys at St. Faith’s for spanking the younger boys with, leaving a… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The British are much more cynical and regard the idea of a Globe reconstruction as an Elizabethan Disneyland. But the Americans have… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are… — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
“I know of no other place that is so fascinating yet so frustrating, so aware of the world and its own place… — Sarah Turnbull Copy Share Image
Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“I don't want her to know the truth about us." "I'm merely going to explain to explain that I'm not Nathaniel's mistress."… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blossoming. And,… — Jean-Christophe Valtat Copy Share Image
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I'm born and raised in Mexico. I only spent eight months in the States, but definitely English is a really big part… — Eiza Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“Along with every other male of his acquaintance he loathed the Naked Chef with messianic passion and prayed for the day he… — Wendy Holden Copy Share Image
I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill. — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image
The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity. — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
