Every Englishman must have a hobby. Some like to collect the stamp, some like to make the jam, but the most fun is to a kill a little animal with a shotgun or rip them up with wild dog. – Sacha Baron Cohen Borat, Da Ali G Show.
I’ll tell you why English teachers go to college for four years. So they can make stupid little kids write stupid essays on what they did all stupid summer! – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Charlie Brown.
Hell is a place where the motorists are French, the policemen are German, and the cooks are English. – Unknown
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. – George Woodcock
I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain. – Helen Mirren
Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it’s not got a lot of funk or soul to it. – Irvine Welsh
The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they’re not too ridiculously expensive. – John Hurt
English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas. – Jim Crace
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. – Alan Perlis
Goodbye English rose, May you never grow old in our hearts. – Elton John Candle in the Wind. Song tribute to Princess Diana.
I used to do a lot of plays in English, Hindi, and Urdu. I wanted to be an actor since I was three and a half. – Ajay Mehta
In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as ‘the brightest jewel in the English crown’. – Alistair Horne
