Arms Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

— William Blake

France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're valued.

— Theodore Zeldin

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

— Karl Marx

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

— Uta Hagen

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.

— William Butler Yeats

“We English have no very strong attachment to the soil, we can make ourselves at home in any part of the world, but the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

— William Butler Yeats

“The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we…

— Stephen Fry

I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.

— Pamela Druckerman

In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They're very thoughtful people - it makes sense to…

— Elizabeth Peyton

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try…

— Edward Hopper