The English are a tolerant bunch and, outside elements of the London elite, never much minded the rise of the Scottish Raj:… — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
While we like to think queueing is unique to British culture, the truth is that we are mere amateurs. The old Soviet… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“Dad says there are more than three thousand letters in the Japanese alphabet, which could pose a problem. There are only twenty-six… — Rin Chupeco Copy Share Image
When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
I remember once saying in a television interview that the only things I hadn't been in were the opera and the ballet.… — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks… — Bobby Schilling Copy Share Image
His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Jace rolled his eyes. “It’s fascinating,” he said. “You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom.… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not… — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
Being a third-generation Mexican-American and speaking English exclusively, I heard Spanish spoken by my relatives all my life, especially when they didn't… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“For years they’ve grumbled that England is a cesspool governed by an immoral king under the spell of the Whore of Babylon,… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means,… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
“He had a particular liking for olde England, especially if the olde was spelled with an e . He found things like… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
People always said that I hated punk, and that really wasn't true. It was glossed over for many years that I was… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
We should favor young immigrants with many years of work ahead of them. We should favor immigrants who have demonstrated an ability… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt… — Mathias Rust Copy Share Image
I feel like Eurovision is a parallel dimension. It reminds me of 'Dance Fever' and 'Solid Gold' when I was a kid.… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
