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Being English Quotes & Sayings

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I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors. — Catherine Deneuve

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. — Stephen Ambrose

For years I had been aware of an important deficiency in the English language: a word to describe something a person loses that was never really hers. — Ellen Miller

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. — Tom Stoppard

Being drunk is the only situation when English people completely avoid health and safety rules. — Angela Kiss

It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language. — Martin Amis

(Claude and Marcel LeFever were speaking in French. This simultaneous English translation is being beamed to the reader via literary satellite.) — Tom Robbins

The English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them. — M. E. W. Sherwood

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know. — Joseph Epstein

I'll buy it right now, Jack," said an English voice, somehow familiar, "if you stop being such a fucking tosser, that is. — Neal Stephenson

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. — Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

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

How the English love playing at being naughty boys! — Robert Gottlieb

Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative. — Ernest Hemingway,

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest. — Erich Segal

When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench. — Janet McTeer

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well. — Kevin Gates

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. — Daniel Radcliffe

When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director. — Kola Boof

This week Sarah Palin's memoir became a bestseller. It's not even out yet. It's being translated into English. — Bill Maher

I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement. — Martin Parr

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world — Winston Churchill

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

It was the seventeenth-century English who gave corned beef its name - corns being any kind of small bits, in this case salt crystals. — Mark Kurlansky

It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that. — Manasa Rao

Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms. — Elizabeth Hurley

The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer? — Thom Yorke

I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it. — Julian Barnes

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went. — John Krasinski

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens. — Robert Wilson

I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering. — Daniel Radcliffe

The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe. — Terry Pratchett

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good. — Daniel Craig

There's just something about being English. When you travel the world you feel more grateful. — Dizzee Rascal

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian. — Radha Mitchell

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy. — Vikram Seth

An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one. — Maya Rodale

Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority. — Garrison Keillor

He was the least scary adult present, besides being English and therefore fascinating. — Jeanne Birdsall

In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. — Bertrand Barere