English People Quotes
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When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because my roots are very American.
— Brandon Flowers
And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?
— Jandy Nelson
The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
— Anthony Hopkins
No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
— Anton Walbrook
To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.
— Jack Lynch
Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.
— Chris Martin
Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.
— Todd English
Being drunk is the only situation when English people completely avoid health and safety rules.
— Angela Kiss
People sometimes have to correct my English. I knew I had a problem when Arnold Schwarzenegger started doing it.
— George W. Bush
Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.
— Julio Iglesias
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
After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.
— Henry Watson Fowler
Language is the key to the heart of people.
— Ahmed Deedat
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
— George Bernard Shaw
The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!
— Terry Gilliam
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
— Margaret Atwood
England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English.
— Dave Barry
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
— Bill Bryson
Sometimes I want to joke but my English isn't perfect. Sometimes people are wondering what I'm talking about.
— Alexander Ovechkin
Enemies! People these days don't have enemies! Not English people!
— Agatha Christie
The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth.
— David E. Goldberg
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
— Maya Angelou
It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.
— Billy Collins
No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
— Robertson Davies
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
I thought of walks in the English countryside, where people start shouting at you as soon as you stray from the footpath.
— George Monbiot
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
— Bill Bryson
Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.
— Russell L. Ackoff
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
— Lillian Hellman
I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
— Viggo Mortensen
I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.
— Norman Cook
People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.
— Virginia Woolf
Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.
— Alan Siegel
The British and Americans are two people separated by a common language.
— George Bernard Shaw
I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?
— James A. Michener
I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.
— Subhash Chandra
Well-bred English people never have imagination ...
— Dorothy L. Sayers
The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
— George Bernard Shaw
The landlord was trying to explain that there were a great many English people in his house, all fighting duels or having hysterics.
— Georgette Heyer
Here, whatever is not boring is not English.
— Frederic Chopin
The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn.
— J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.
Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?
— Mary Rose O'Reilley
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
— Christopher Walken
I said I was an English major, that I wanted to write someday, that I read the way other people ate chocolate.
— Francesca Lia Block
Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don't speak English?
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
The English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human
— Charles Dickens
I always like a charity with people who don't speak English because I get them to do all kinds of things around my house.
— Joan Rivers
People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House,
— Tom Tancredo
Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise ["Absolute English," Aeon, February 4, 2015].
— Michael Gordin
Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.
— Oscar Wilde
There are those lunatic people who always prophesy the end of the world. I belong to them.
— Angela Kiss
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
— Samuel Smiles
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
— Eric Idle
English, our common language, binds our diverse people.
— S.I. Hayakawa
English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
— Carl Sandburg
Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.
— Maureen Johnson
Did you ask people to crime scenes on dates?
— Maureen Johnson
I love celery and people don't use it a lot. Celery and flavors in that family - it really brightens and is refreshing.
— Todd English
They were a bit like English taverns, which had effigies instead of names, so that people like Jack, who could not read, could know them.
— Neal Stephenson
It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.
— Billy Bob Thornton
Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.
— Richard Flanagan
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of
— Charles Dickens
Our English monarchs are so unimaginative," said Eldric. "They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.
— Franny Billingsley
The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!
— Dree Hemingway
Dickens belongs to the English people.
— Claire Tomalin
Theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in
— Charles Dickens
Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
— J.K. Rowling
I spoke in English because the language of the Frisian people is so close to our own.
— Bernard Cornwell
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
They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually were.
— E. M. Forster
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
I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.
— Diego Maradona
