English people Quote by Eric Idle

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of…

— Simon Pegg

Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish…

— Vinnie Jones

American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

— Oscar Wilde

I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here…

— Hayley Atwell

Perhaps it's an accident of nationality, but the English treasure subtlety and appreciate not having everything spelled out for them, while Americans want everything…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.

— Winston Marshall

Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person…

— Jaime Murray

Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our…

— Bill Vaughan

Language uses us as much as we use language.

— Robin Lakoff

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

— Robert Burchfield

I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is an American…

— Sylvia Plath