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