Believe Quote by William Hazlitt

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

— Samuel Pepys

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

— Agnes Repplier

“The cultural fear of “bugs” we have as a society, without understanding what they do or how vital they are to the rest of…

— Joey Santore

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

— Terry Gilliam

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

— V. S. Pritchett

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

— Alfred de Musset

“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

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

— Winston Churchill

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

— George Mikes

We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the rest of…

— Frankie Boyle

There is sort of a hobbit-like element to a lot of British people. They don't want to be told something until they have worked…

— Daniel Hannan

“Proprieties of place, and especially of time, are the bugbears which terrify mankind from the contemplation of the magnificent.”

— Edgar Allan Poe