Appearance Quote by Sara Jeannette Duncan

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

There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the…

— Edie Campbell

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

— Terry Gilliam

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

— Agnes Repplier

I think American men are more conscious of putting up a good impression. There's more of an earthiness to Englishmen. But Americans aren't afraid…

— Sienna Miller

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

— Denholm Elliott

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Alfred de Musset

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

— Alain Prost

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

— Samuel Pepys

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

Ordinary British people don't on the whole find it easy to express their feelings, even to those closest to them.

— Vera Lynn