Nice English Quotes

#1. You take them home expecting a nice English cucumber, but regrettably end up with a pickle.

Harlow Stone

#2. In fact, when I met Kit Harington first, he was pretty much feeling how I'm feeling today - at a photo shoot and you've had no sleep. He was just a really nice, English, down-to-earth guy. No pretense, nothing.

Max Irons

#3. Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.

Joe Strummer

#5. The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it.

Howard Tomb

#6. Step by step the ladder is ascended.

George Herbert

#7. Man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.

Orhan Pamuk

#8. She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Toni Morrison

#9. Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.

Michael Jackson

#10. The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

Matthew Arnold

#11. The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

Isaac Hanson

#12. I study English literature but my friends are doing psychology and things like that. No one cares about acting there. It's not competitive and it's a nice environment for me.

Yasmin Paige

#13. I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

Anne Rice

#14. As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

Zaha Hadid

#15. Cucinala come vuoi, ma sempre cocuzza el...Cook squash anyway you like, but it's still squash.

Wally Lamb

#16. I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.

Maria Sharapova

#17. Tread lightly on your partner's heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.

Alexandra Katehakis

#18. In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

Adele Exarchopoulos

#19. What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.

Natalie Dormer

#20. It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it definitely takes a different part of my brain to pull it off, but it's always nice and fun.

Ksenia Solo

#21. Yes, it would nice for this fifty year period, this cradle of all vampire short stories in the English language, to include a vampire tale by Edgar Allan Poe. But the sad answer is that Poe never penned a vampire story.

Andrew Barger

#22. Seriously, you don't have to know English. It'd be nice, a nice little plus. We don't want miracles. You don't have to know the country's language. But just some shapes, that's all. A square. A little geometry.

David Spade

#23. I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

Peter Lawford