Brixton Speaks Quote by Amy Lane

“New Englanders could be so brusque.”

— Cherise Sinclair

“He asked nothing better than to kill an Englishman. He had accounts to settle with the bastards.”

— Ian Fleming

“...and said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.”

— Diana Wynne Jones

“England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen.”

— Len Deighton

“He spoke in english. Not flawlessly by any means. Not like a Nazi POW camp commandant who appreciates english poetry and says things like…

— Alex Garland

“He didn’t speak English. We killed a kid for the crime of not speaking English. I”

— Nat Kozinn

“But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That’s when all…

— Marisha Pessl

“He knew it was there, that opiate of the Anglos. And his hand clutched the box just as the kettle whistled. Violent death demanded…

— Louise Penny

“I know Sir. The tower order them not to land, but they said an English man got on thw wire and said to shut…

— Jeaniene Frost

“I think you should be grateful to the English, they built this country and made it civil.”

— Peter Murphy

“I tried to talk like them, cursing and cussing, mutilating the English language into a slang that I could barely stand nor understand.”

— Carol Wambui Ngabura

“Are all Dumnonian warriors so ill-mannered?" she asked the table at large in an acid voice. "You want warriors to be courtiers?" Celwin retorted…

— Bernard Cornwell