Anglophile Quote by Anthony Horowitz

“As time passed and he found his rhythm, he began to feel more certain. England opened beneath his feet, and the feeling of freedom,…

— Rachel Joyce

“As time passed and he found his rhythm, he began to feel more certain. England opened up beneath his feet, and the feeling of…

— Rachel Joyce

“He read with young men who could find any leisure and interest for the study of a living tongue spoken all over the world,…

— Charles Dickens

“By the early seventies I had become an Englishman – that is to say, I hated England just as much as half of my…

— Nick Hornby

“His youth had been so long ago that he could remember nothing of it but he presumed, erroneously, that he had tasted the purple…

— Mervyn Peake

“He soon perceived, however, that the battles which Sir Miles and the rest had waged against armed knights to win a kingdom, were not…

— Virginia Woolf

“He walked to Brooks’s, intending to drink a glass of port, eat a joint of beef, and read the Times. But even at his…

— Laura Lee Guhrke

“His wife had been wild about him at first; she had treated him with an amorous servility that had turned him against her all…

— Gustave Flaubert

“For a boy who went out to it from the dulness of some country rectory, from a neighbourhood where a flower show and a…

— Saki

“He disliked English, not because they had invaded his country, but because of the effort required to understand their different languages and customs. At…

— Leila Aboulela

“He had no money or influence here. The clothes on his back were ragged, his moccasins were worn, and he was skeletally thin from…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He…

— Katherine Rundell