Clothes Quote by Natalia Ginzburg

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

— Martha Gellhorn

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not…

— Edith Sitwell

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.

— Alain Prost

Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of…

— Ian Fleming

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means…

— Raoul Vaneigem

There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games…

— Washington Irving

The trouble about most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation, or hope to…

— Edith Sitwell

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

— Frederick Busch

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

— Samuel Pepys

The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country.

— Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of…

— Robin Sloan