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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
I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
— G. Willow Wilson
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
Being drunk is the only situation when English people completely avoid health and safety rules.
— Angela Kiss
The only people who should play for England are English people
— Jack Wilshere
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
Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or Englishbut are great in remembering signs — Karl Lagerfeld
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
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
— John McWhorter
English fondness for France is normally a sort of neutron love: take away the people and leave the buildings standing.
— Anthony Lane
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
We have to be concerned about the gun killing that people who are Americans, who are Irish, and who are English, who are all around the country.
— Dalia Mogahed
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
Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don't speak English?
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?
— Dean Koontz
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
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
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
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
When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
— Finley Peter Dunne
I thought of walks in the English countryside, where people start shouting at you as soon as you stray from the footpath.
— George Monbiot
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.
The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
The English are the people of consummate cant.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
— Pat Boone
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
— Douglas Coupland
Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.
— Jane Kaczmarek
The people don't take baths and they don't speak English. No golf courses, no room service. Who needs it?
— Jim McMahon
I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
— Bill Gates
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
I love the English people - if you don't want to speak, you don't speak. And I'm quite like that sometimes.
— Sophie Cookson
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
Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.
— Oscar Wilde
Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.
— Richard Flanagan
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
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
— Samuel Smiles
There are those lunatic people who always prophesy the end of the world. I belong to them.
— Angela Kiss
Did you ask people to crime scenes on dates?
— Maureen Johnson
I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and it's kind of a kick.
— Marsha Thomason
Dickens belongs to the English people.
— Claire Tomalin
The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!
— Dree Hemingway
I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
— J.K. Rowling
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
— Bill Bryson
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
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
Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of
— Charles Dickens
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 spoke in English because the language of the Frisian people is so close to our own.
— Bernard Cornwell
