Beauty Quote by Mary Ellen Chase

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

— Agnes Repplier

The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The English are the people of consummate cant.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

— Robert Graves

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity…

— R. H. Tawney

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

— Denholm Elliott

The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me…

— Martin Amis

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual…

— Jerry Saltz

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

— Alfred de Musset

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the…

— Pierre Daninos