English Quotes · Page 25

English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes.

— Trinny Woodall

The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth.

— David E. Goldberg

In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.

— Cat Deeley

“The French have the right respect for dogs--in France we chiens get to go to lunch and dinner anytime, anywhere.”

— Sheron Long

In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and…

— Chris Pine

I think we're all guilty of it as British citizens: if something gets big, we go, 'Ugh.'

— Winston Marshall

I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

— Shakuntala Devi

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

— Julian Clary

I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me…

— Joanne Harris

The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than…

— Karen Maitland

“BILL: I have not forsook my responsibilities!- BARBARA: It's "forsaken," big shot! BILL: Actually, "forsook" is also an acceptable usage!- BARBARA: Oh,…

— Tracy Letts

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any…

— Joshua Foer

At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in…

— Cherie Lunghi

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state…

— Siri Hustvedt

If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom.…

— Pedro Almodovar

“He had a particular liking for olde England, especially if the olde was spelled with an e . He found things like…

— Anthony Horowitz

Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

— Irvine Welsh

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

— Winston Churchill

“Remember that lettuce doesn’t grow on a spruce; and it also doesn’t rhyme with it.”

— Jakub Marian

There's something in people's character, particularly the British character, about unfairness. They don't like it.

— John McDonnell

I get the sense that the British do not like to look at things on the bright side of life. Maybe it…

— Ana Patricia Botin

I dont ever educate people by teaching English, I just make them realize what really is it? and nothing else.

— Vikrant Parsai

By the end of my BA, I was still not good in English, but I went on to enroll for an MA…

— Ravish Kumar

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

— Anonymous

“ "Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.”

— Beryl Markham

I shouldn't say it, but I found that the French can be the most arrogant people in the world if they want…

— Margaret Trudeau

“Only an Englishman of Morgan's class could call a queer suicide with overtones of financial wrongdoing a "muddle".”

— James Lear

They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur…

— Jean Froissart

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

— George Orwell

My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous.

— Robert Sean Leonard

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

— Richard Flanagan

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.

— John Lawson

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional…

— Mamata Banerjee

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

— James Otis

Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

— Honore de Balzac

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

— George Bernard Shaw

'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.

— Jamie Cullum

I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.

— Orlando Bloom

Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the…

— Matt Smith

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

— Zadie Smith