“Takes more than beer in your blood to take the English out of you.” — Nancy Holderv Copy Share Image
When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were… — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen… — Diego Maradona Copy Share Image
You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea. — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.' — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression… — Denholm Elliott Copy Share Image
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
“Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let… — P.C. Cast Copy Share Image
It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
“...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might… — Kailash Kher 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
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I have a very awesome seat in the house every time I play. When the lights come up, and the sound turns… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Before doing 'Midnight's Children,' I didn't really have a chance to explore my Indian side. The Indian side of my heritage was… — Satya Bhabha 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
