Civility Quote by Anna Pavlova

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

— Agnes Repplier

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to…

— George Orwell

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

— Margaret Halsey

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

— Terry Gilliam

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the…

— Pierre Daninos

The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the…

— Tadashi Yanai

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no…

— Peter Ackroyd

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I think the English are bipolar. 'We're the greatest, no we're terrible' - that's a constant English struggle. Crime is down, there's little poverty…

— Dara O Briain

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure…

— Robert Falcon Scott

Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens,…

— Richard Flanagan

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the…

— Isabella Bird