Absolutely Quote by Perdita Weeks Download Open image “The English treatment of the Irish was appalling. It was absolutely appalling.” — Perdita Weeks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absolutely English Irish Treatment
Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Such brutishness was beyond the English capacity for tolerance. Especially when the vulgarians in question occupied such lovely lands. So, as they had for… — David E. Stannard Copy Share Image
Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
“The behaviour of the English people I had run into was making it very difficult to nail down a theory that the reason my trip so far had been such a bizarre success, was that Irish people were crazy. One Englishman had spent a morning on the telephone trying to organise a helicopter to take me out to an island,… — Tony Hawks Copy Share
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“This may come as a surprise to generations of Irish pupils, but the Irish language wasn't invented just to infuriate people forced to learn… — Darach Ó Séaghdha Copy Share Image
If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other… — Robin Flower Copy Share Image
There are a lot of similarities between Jonathan Higgins and Juliet Higgins: they're both British, they both come from military backgrounds, and they're both… — Perdita Weeks Copy Share Image
It can be heart-breaking when you don't get something you really want, but there's always the next time. — Perdita Weeks Copy Share Image
I think the English public loves period drama. I love watching them myself. It's such a massive part of our TV tastes, even though,… — Perdita Weeks Copy Share Image
I personally cannot watch horror films: I am a scaredy cat and scare incredibly easily. — Perdita Weeks Copy Share Image
There was a great ensemble in 'The Great Fire,' and it was great not having the same parade of actors. — Perdita Weeks Copy Share Image
'The Da Vinci Code' and films of that nature are the ones that I really enjoy because you are learning and working out riddles… — Perdita Weeks Copy Share Image
It was a little bit strange as an English woman cast in 'Rebellion.' I read up about the events and, honestly, I knew very… — Perdita Weeks Copy Share Image
My overly ambitious dream is to be a Lena Dunham - I get immense pleasure seeing her name repeated over and over in the… — Perdita Weeks Copy Share Image
The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless… — David H. Koch Copy Share Image
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English. — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
If I was a man, I would be a drag queen. Honestly, I would. I absolutely love it. — Scarlett Moffatt Copy Share Image
There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work. — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share
You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do. — Kimberly Bryant Copy Share Image
There were a lot of clubs interested in me - a lot, really. But Manchester United appeared and didn't go away. They absolutely wanted… — Angel Di Maria Copy Share Image
People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
