Top 25 Englishwomen's Quotes
#1. Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any ...
Margaret Halsey
#2. I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.
Tom Colicchio
#3. Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.
Nicholas Jarecki
#4. This is my time, this is my hour,
This is my pain, this is my name, this is my power.
If it's my reign, then it's my shower,
This pole position ... I made a lane 'cause they blocked ours.
Pusha T
#5. The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's done. I just go to the next thing. I don't complain, I don't go to - I pick my battles very, very judiciously, and I just assume that there's good in the heart of everybody.
James McBride
#6. Are you going to argue with me?"
Beatrix tried to sound meek. "No, sir."
A slow smile crossed his face. "That was the worst attempt at obedience I've ever seen.
Lisa Kleypas
#7. We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
Plutarch
#8. The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.
Claire McCaskill
#9. You nurslings of Protestantism astonish me. You unguarded Englishwomen walk calmly amidst red-hot ploughshares and escape burning. I believe, if some of you were thrown into Nebuchadnezzar's hottest furnace you would issue forth untraversed by the smell of fire.
Charlotte Bronte
#10. She also had a French accent, which hundreds of years of animosity had trained nice young Englishwomen to suspect as evil.
Gail Carriger
#11. You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer," said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Charles Dickens
#12. I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.
Alex Haley
#13. Let me whisper it. Let me sigh it. Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it.
Shirley Horn
#14. Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading
I like reading books in the bulk.
Virginia Woolf
#16. I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.
Robert Mitchum
#17. The Times had announced that seven thousand pounds had been raised to send a party of Englishwomen to the Crimea as nurses. That, Lib had thought, with dread but also a sense of daring, I believe I could do that. She'd lost so much already, she was reckless. All
Emma Donoghue
#18. The end result is that there can be no more truth or goodness and no need or even ability to make tough choices. Where the purpose of higher education once was to enable the student to find truth, the modern university teaches that there is no truth, only 'lifestyle.
Allan Bloom
#19. Don't make me throw my boot at you, because I will, you grumpy high testosterone driven male
Keisha Keenleyside
#20. If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?
Julian Barnes
#22. Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.
James Laver
#23. Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#24. The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#25. The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
Edith Sitwell
