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Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
View quotes by Jimmy Breslin

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
View quotes by William Blackstone

All last year we tried to teach him Fernando Valenzuela English, and the only word he learned was million.
View quotes by Tommy Lasorda

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox is the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
View quotes by Oscar Wilde

I have no wish to be disrespectful to the Scots. But it is outrageous that I as an English MP can be outvoted on issues such as Oxfordshire's NHS without corresponding powers the other way.
View quotes by Boris Johnson

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
View quotes by Walter Bagehot

Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.
View quotes by Virginia Woolf

Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.
View quotes by Goran Visnjic

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.
View quotes by Tim Roth

[on the loss of the English series]: Most of us lefties were always complaining of the Harmison hit – a purple bruise on the hip and thigh
View quotes by Mark Richardson

As an English General has very truly said, 'The German army was stabbed in the back.' (Statement in Reichstag 1919)
View quotes by Paul Von Hindenburg

Places like this [Bramall Lane] are the soul of English football. The crowd is magnificent, saying 'f*** off Mourinho' and so on
View quotes by Jose Mourinho

We [the English] seem as it were to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind (The Expansion of England)
View quotes by Sir John Robert Seeley

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players [on England not qualifying for Euro 2008]
View quotes by Arsene Wenger

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.
View quotes by Jeanette MacDonald

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.
View quotes by Neville Cardus

He crossed the line between eccentricity and idiocy far too often for someone who was supposed to be running English cricket [on Ted Dexter]
View quotes by Ian Botham

Few things are more deeply rooted in the collective imagination of the English than the village cricket match.
View quotes by Geoffrey Moorhouse

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilisation (English Social History)
View quotes by G M Trevelyan

'Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.
View quotes by Nancy Mitford

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