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“Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.”

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You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

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Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.

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“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.”

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If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.

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We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

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You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The…

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“Real unhappiness is ugly and wounding and scarring to the soul.”

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“The longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.”

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Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

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“How many of us, having cried bitter, rancid tears over a failed love, are actually disappointed when we discover, seeing the adored one again,…

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I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very…

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I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

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“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of…

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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

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By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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The fact that an Englishman has an Argentinian as an idol is very rare. I keep watching my [title-winning] goal against QPR and every…

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The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

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I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn from evidence…

Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

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I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are…

Josephine de La Baume

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When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

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My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another…

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Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

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I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

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