Quote by Paul Scott

“...you know as well as I do that, individually, the English are very estimable and frequently generous, but that, once banded together to form…

— Maurice Dekobra

“To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.”

— Jack Lynch

“English is becoming a universal language such as humans have never had before.”

— Minae Mizumura

“the people in this country who feel most like foreigners to each other are English people who’ve just arrived and the ones who have…

— Paul Scott

“Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be…

— Irvine Welsh

“They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually…

— E.M. Forster

“There is possibly no insult so calculated to sting the English as the suggestion that they may at any time be considered foreign, as…

— Jonathan L. Howard

“After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever.”

— Paul Bowles

“There is no understanding Englishness without understanding its imperial and colonial dimensions.”

— Stuart Hall

“They don't talk the same language as us. I don't mean that they don't speak English, but that their minds are different. They're like…

— Eric Ambler

“The difference between the English and the rest of mankind is that the English have long known the truth about themselves — which makes…

— Romain Gary

“You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English.”

— Robert Aickman