Top 19 English Attitude Quotes
#1. 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
#2. You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.
Josh Lanyon
#5. Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.
Edith Wharton
#6. I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.
Scott Turow
#7. The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
Margaret Halsey
#8. There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.
Jack London
#9. Memories help make us who we are.(Taken from novel...A Very English Affair)
Faith Mortimer
#10. I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I was going to, its history, and the countryside. I was acquiring a kind of English character if you like, Englishness about things and my attitudes.
Ibn Warraq
#11. with his partner. Griff's out of Baltimore, too.
Nora Roberts
#12. The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is "wrong" and arises from insular ignorance.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
#13. In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scott Fitzgerald has clearly depicted this in The Great Gatsby.
Parul Wadhwa
#15. An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#16. When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.
Gong Li
#17. They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually were.
E. M. Forster
#18. There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.
Cornel West
#19. No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
Rupert Murdoch