The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Give me a sight of you to take back to England with me. I am not speaking Welsh, though indeed it is… — Margiad Evans Copy Share Image
The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved. — Alain Prost Copy Share Image
I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English. — Kate del Castillo Copy Share Image
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Great keepers and centre-backs were what the English were brought up on. — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In 1986, I was attacked in the street as I helped Neil Mullarkey from the Comedy Store Players to put up posters.… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in… — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I… — Lakshmi Mittal Copy Share Image
“We English have no very strong attachment to the soil, we can make ourselves at home in any part of the world,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is… — William Hazlitt 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 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
“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
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
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
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
I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama,… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I love French and English bulldogs. They're hilarious and adorable. — Xander Schauffele Copy Share Image
