English People Quotes
38 English People quotes by 36 unique authors
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I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most…
— Bill Bryson
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I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well…
— Michael Caine
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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I AM happy”. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our…
— Grant Morrison
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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is…
— Charles Macklin
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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard…
— John Arbuthnot
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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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The only people who should play for England are English people
— Unknown Author
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Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do…
— Marvin Hagler
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The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs,…
— Andrew O'Hagan
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Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting…
— Jamie Campbell Bower
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The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man…
— Benjamin Haydon
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I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.
— Fatboy Slim
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Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree…
— Klaus Fuchs
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Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted…
— Klaus Fuchs
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The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm…
— Colin Firth
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance…
— Rachel Johnson
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It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like.…
— Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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American audiences are affected by what the English people think.
— Chita Rivera
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I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a…
— Jamie Bell
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English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped…
— Vivien Leigh
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English people have seen me get through scandals.
— George Michael
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My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.
— Andy Murray
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years…
— Carl Sandburg
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