England Quote by W. C. Fields

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

When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.

— William S. Burroughs

English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.

— Susie Dent

“All the different ways of talking English I throw together like a salad and dine greedily in my mongrel tongue.”

— Alice Randall

My mum drank 20 cups of tea a day and my dad ate Digestive biscuits. So I've always felt English.

— Owen Hargreaves

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

— Paul Bowles

Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.

— Zelda Fitzgerald

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being…

— Cyril Connolly

The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be…

— Muriel Spark

“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

If you wanna find out 101 things to do with plums, heh, read your in-flight magazine.

— David Cross

Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and…

— Eddy Peters