Quintessential English Quotes

#1. David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for one night (not a whole tour) but he was incredibly gracious and generous toward me and I've certainly never forgotten it.

Brooke Fraser

#2. He still read copy as if it were Braille; bumps in the language letting him know when

Mick Herron

#3. If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

Lenny Bruce

#4. Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#5. Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place.

Isaac Hanson

#6. With arms shrunken to little more than bone and yellowed skin, the castaways waved and shouted,

Laura Hillenbrand

#7. Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

Tony Benn

#8. I ca'n't remember things as I used- and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!

Lewis Carroll

#9. My Corolla, sorry to report, was mortally wounded in the attack. There were no funeral plans at this time.

Heather Webber

#10. His life was unrecorded; who is there to write down the lives of ordinary people?

Alexander McCall Smith

#11. The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#12. This is the very structure of sports journalism: deification and damnation, death and resurrection, failure and redemption. You succeed so you can falter so you can succeed again. We need a rise and a fall. We need hubris and retribution and recovery.

Will Leitch

#13. The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.

James Fenton

#14. Change was not something you waited for, quietly, mutely, in a house by the ocean, nothing would ever change unless we forced it into shape.

Andrew Sean Greer

#15. But I feel more real when I'm around her. Like I'm not fading.

Scott Westerfeld

#16. Christianity brought something new and revolutionary: freedom and unconditional dignity for each individual, regardless of his religion, culture or nationality. But the East and the West have parted ways since the Crusades.

Walter Kasper

#17. I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.

Ayn Rand