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The English don't like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It's alright if they come from an 'intellectual,', but from a pop star you're getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn't rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you're in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn't it?
‐‐ Brian Eno

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars.
‐‐ Bjork

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.
‐‐ Jurgen Klopp

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
‐‐ Manfred von Richthofen

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
‐‐ Karl Marx

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
‐‐ Peter Ackroyd

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
‐‐ Alexander Woollcott

The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
‐‐ Karen Maitland

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.
‐‐ Robin Marantz Henig

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
‐‐ Dorothy L. Sayers

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
‐‐ Derek Walcott

The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
‐‐ Stephen Gardiner

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.
‐‐ Julian Clary

The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon.
‐‐ Denholm Elliott

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
‐‐ Raymond Chandler

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
‐‐ Thomas Beecham

The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.
‐‐ John Hurt

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
‐‐ Margaret Halsey

'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.
‐‐ Colin Firth

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.
‐‐ Garry Hynes

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.
‐‐ Michael Hutchence

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have forced these slight improvements.
‐‐ Emmeline Pankhurst

The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I've always felt that my writing goes more to that than what I did when I came to Australia.
‐‐ Graeme Base

The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.
‐‐ Theodore Zeldin

The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.
‐‐ Greg Ginn

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
‐‐ Edward Bond

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.
‐‐ Elizabeth George

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.
‐‐ Nicholas Haslam

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
‐‐ Charlotte Gainsbourg

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
‐‐ A. P. Herbert

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.
‐‐ Louis Kronenberger

The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force, advertisers, and agencies. To facilitate this, we have held multiple training sessions internally and road show events externally.
‐‐ Victor Koo

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
‐‐ Chauncey Depew

The enjoyment of work - to the extent that you have any - is likely highest in the first hours of the day when you are fresh, not tired, working on the most important things.
‐‐ Emily Oster

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.
‐‐ Tariq Ali

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.
‐‐ Ken Wilber

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.
‐‐ Karl Radek

The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
‐‐ Laura Ingalls Wilder

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.
‐‐ Nikolai Berdyaev

The enterprise market is never winner-take-all.
‐‐ Satya Nadella