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Language and History in Viking Age England: Language Relations between Speakers of Old Norse and Old English (Turnbout, 2002).
— F. Donald Logan
The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not the great passion the English Premiership has got.
— Michael Owen
I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.
— Lev Grossman
But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.
— Natalia Ginzburg
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They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country.[Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.] — Jean Froissart
I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts
— Margaret Thatcher
Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.
— William Monahan
So I went to bed, full, happy, and caring nothing for all the hurt of all the englished Welshmen that ever festered upon a proud land
— Richard Llewellyn
The English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.
— Martha Gellhorn
There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.
— Bob Hope
In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.
— Otto Von Bismarck
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
— Ada Leverson
The only people who should play for England are English people
— Jack Wilshere
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
— George Bernard Shaw
With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in front of the gloomy inspector.
— Agatha Christie
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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[Poetry] is a field where England can take on all challengers.
— Patrick Leigh Fermor
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
— Anthony Trollope
England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English.
— Dave Barry
The English are a nation of consummate cant.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!
— Jean Plaidy
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.
— Julius Caesar Scaliger
The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth.
— David E. Goldberg
It has also been the peculiar lot of our country to be visited by the worst kind of English travellers.
— Washington Irving
If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.
— Douglas William Jerrold
The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The English are the people of consummate cant.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour of night!
— Salman Rushdie
There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.
— Chaim Weizmann
The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
— Oscar Wilde
The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead.
— William S. Burroughs
In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.
— Walter Schellenberg
What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.
— Hermione Gingold
I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.
— Jez Butterworth
So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Well-bred English people never have imagination ...
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
— David Bowie
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
— P.D. James
The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.
— Martin Amis
It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.
— Virginia Gildersleeve
English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England!
— Dan Castellaneta
I am the granddaughter of an English woman. I love England and her people and, regardless of politics, consider you to be family ... and always will.
— Nicola Sturgeon
English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Why should I learn English? I'm never going to England. Shah, pffff, ur, doy.
— Christopher Titus
Every manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.
— Fabio Capello
The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.
— Julien Offray De La Mettrie
If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.
— Lewis Gordon
I get a lot more abuse in England. That's just a general English attitude. I did the same thing to famous people. It's just your instinct.
— Robert Pattinson
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The English winter is long, cold and wet, just like the English summer
— Benny Bellamacina
Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.
— Henry James
It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
— William Shakespeare
In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.
— Bertrand Barere
English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.
— Matt Groening
It's such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see,That though the English are effete
They're quite impervious to heat. — Noel Coward
Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.
— Arsene Wenger
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
— Agnes Repplier
For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England.
— Olivia Hussey
The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.
— Martha Grimes
What passes for cookery in England is an abomination.
— Virginia Woolf
I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.
— Anthony Burgess
Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
— Agnes Repplier
Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom ...
— Alexander McCall Smith
