Anglophile Quote by Helene Hanff

I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.

— Helene Hanff

“I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for.”

— Helene Hanff

As a young guy from south London, I wanted to be able to make myself stand out.

— Tinie Tempah

You have to understand, that's all I've ever wanted: for London to have a credible musical voice. I will honestly, honestly die happy knowing…

— Skepta

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There…

— Charlotte Church

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There…

— Charlotte Church

I wanted to do London Boulevard because I saw the potential of a story about two people who need each other desperately, who love…

— William Monahan

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

— Terry Gilliam

Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder,…

— Joe Bonamassa

“He had a particular liking for olde England, especially if the olde was spelled with an e . He found things like croquet, cream…

— Anthony Horowitz

My father was never interested in anything outside England. He was an Anglophile who was interested in things that, in his mind, were quintessentially…

— Mark Getty

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

— George Takei

“…though he hated to admit it, they were all Anglophiles. They were a family of Anglophiles. Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their…

— Arundhati Roy

I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood -…

— Jefferson Mays

My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.

— Emily Giffin