Conventionality Quote by Denholm Elliott

English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as…

— S. J. Perelman

What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love…

— Danielle de Niese

Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

— Irvine Welsh

Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

— Sara Jeannette Duncan

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

— Ha Jin

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something…

— Robert Fitzgerald

I think speaking English is beautiful.

— Robinho

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

— Alfred de Musset

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

— Mary Ellen Chase

The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

— Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

— Oscar Wilde

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

— Chow Yun-Fat