Englishness Quote by Stuart Hall

“It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“It is foolish to pretend that the legacies of colonialism can be consistently erased without a trace.”

— Partha Chatterjee

“Perhaps it doesn't understand English,”

— Lewis Carroll

“Learning English was like lifting a veil, one which would be, he'd learn, impossible to fully restore.”

— Glenn Diaz

“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

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

— Robert Aickman

“Across the Atlantic, in another theatre of the identity wars, the British prime minister was narrowing the definition of Britishness to exclude multiplicity, internationalism,…

— Salman Rushdie

“...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

“There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.”

— Jack London

“Just because someone doesn’t have a grasp of English doesn’t mean they don’t have a grasp on disparagement.”

— Finn Murphy

“There was nothing inherently wrong with colonialism, he felt, if its administration was fair and just. He”

— Adam Hochschild