English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up... →
Roy Blount, Jr.
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
Edward Bond
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything... →
Malcolm Bradbury
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter... →
Rory Bremner
I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
Abigail Breslin
It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.
Jim Broadbent
People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable... →
Anita Brookner
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century... →
Geraldine Brooks