English Quotes · Page 24

But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.

— Larry McMurtry

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

— Denholm Elliott

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

— Talib Kweli

One of my favorite breakfasts is an English muffin, so I need a good toaster.

— Chloe Fineman

“The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are,…

— Winston Churchill

Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle…

— Nguyen Cao Ky

“After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever.”

— Paul Bowles

I feel like Eurovision is a parallel dimension. It reminds me of 'Dance Fever' and 'Solid Gold' when I was a kid.…

— Seamus Dever

In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and…

— Stacy Schiff

I've been given an amazing opportunity and I could not be more grateful. But I also know that all this will eventually…

— Josh Brolin

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only…

— Paul Gallico

From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have…

— Colin Morgan

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in…

— Miyavi

“The rout, that dreary review of fashionable fineries, that parade of well-dressed self-infatuations, is one of those English inventions currently mechanifying the…

— Honoré de Balzac

I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe...…

— Ornella Muti

What is good with the English clubs is that they respect the old players.

— Robert Pires

“The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days…

— Salman Rushdie

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about…

— Rachel Weisz

“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in…

— Nikesh Shukla

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

— John Oliver

From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it's encountered.

— Susie Dent

I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.

— Sam Claflin

I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.

— Joel Kinnaman

What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm…

— Natalie Dormer

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English.…

— Siri Hustvedt

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take…

— Van Wyck Brooks

The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?

— Davy Jones

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

— Alan Siegel

Be happy, be proud, be generous, be respectful, be proud to be French citizens.

— Francois Hollande

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy…

— Lily Collins

I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.

— David Means

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

— Carrie Fisher

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

— George Bernard Shaw

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

— Natalia Ginzburg

Obviously you know match-fixing is out there but you don't really associate it with the English game.

— Adebayo Akinfenwa

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

— George Woodcock

If you met me in London, you might be appalled at how English I sounded.

— Pollyanna McIntosh

The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.

— P. J. O'Rourke

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

— Edward Abbey