Difficulty Quote by Max Beerbohm

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

— Terry Gilliam

The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to…

— George Orwell

I grew up in England, and people there are pretty difficult. They never say what they mean, and when they do it comes out…

— Christina Pickles

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

It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence…

— Alexander Herzen

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to…

— George Orwell

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally…

— George Orwell

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

— Agnes Repplier

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

— P. D. James

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

— Alfred de Musset