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The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought. — Napoleon Bonaparte
To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
London, dirty little pool of life — Unknown Author
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. — James Agate
In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia. — Aneurin Bevan
The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and… — Karel Capek
Thirty millions, mostly fools. — Thomas Carlyle
Sheep with a nasty side. — Cyril Connolly
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity. — Quentin Crisp
Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards. — Eustache Deschamps
Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient… — A. V. Dicey
It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round. — Alfred Douglas
All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips. — W.C. Fields
The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a… — Clement Freud
About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it,… — Clement Freud
'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the… — Joseph Furphy
It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. — Margaret Halsey
The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love. — Margaret Halsey
It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they… — William Hazlitt
From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom. — Heinrich Heine
The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out… — Heinrich Heine
The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive.… — Heinrich Heine
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
The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there… — D. H. Lawrence

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