Northern English Quotes

#1. Often, Americans think any northern English accent is Australian.

Ryan Cartwright

#2. Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.

Robert Peel

#3. It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, Wait on time.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

John Berger

#5. One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K.

Rory Bremner

#6. The more that you need a relationship, the less you are able to be in a relationship. The more that something on the surface can answer you, the less that you will be really answered when you're in it.

John De Ruiter

#7. I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and we had a horrible experience with the English Protestant police, I lost all taste for formal religion.

Guy Laliberte

#8. The city has become a serious menace to our civilization ... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Josiah Strong

#9. Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.

Daniel Gillies