Quotes About Englishness

#1. As much as of course that Englishness of always to be embarrassed about any sense of complement, it is nice to know that a lot of the projects that I've worked on that people do feel there has been some effect.

Robin Ince

#2. It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.

Ezra Pound

#3. Kumar was a man who felt in the end he had lost everything, even his Englishness, and could then only meet every situation - even the most painful - in silence, in the hope that out of it he would dredge back up some self-respect.

Paul Scott

#4. There was, Katherine speculated, no possible way of concealing his Englishness, or any English person's Englishness for that matter. You could spot them immediately - pasty white; muffin bellied; Rorschached with quasi-Celtic tattoos.

Sam Byers

#5. Sorcha," he whispered, and realized that he had called her so a moment before. Now, that was odd; no wonder she had been surprised. It was her name in the Gaelic, but he never called her by it. He liked the strangeness of her, the Englishness. She was his Claire, his Sassenach.

Diana Gabaldon

#6. There's a certain Englishness about the English game

Mike Parry

#7. Even his Englishness was a well-kept secret.

John Le Carre

#8. It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes.

Sara Sheridan

#9. Hats are the epitome of Englishness, and a royal wedding is the penultimate moment for a hat designer. I'm Irish, but I am a royalist and I believe in fantasy.

Philip Treacy

#10. 'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.

John Lydon

#11. 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

#12. There is a certain ancient civility about tailors that is welcome - especially in modern London, which is now very much an international city, not an English city. They're still a little vessel of Englishness in what is otherwise a pretty rambunctious place.

Graydon Carter

#13. I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

Pete Townshend

#14. I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the historical reasons. Even the accent changes - just two inches across the border.

Rory Stewart

#15. I don't dream about anyone - except myself

Steven Morrissey

#16. That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea.

Sara Shepard

#17. Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.

Rand Paul

#18. Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

Stephen King

#19. In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. That baby is small,' observed the bald guy, who sat to the right of Jamie.

He nodded, thinking, small but lethal.

Judith Arnold

#21. On a good day, I'm a first class prick, but even I know that being treated like you're disposable is something no one should ever be used to.

Melyssa Winchester

#22. Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.

Patricia Duncker

#23. Lord, what is man, that You care for him, the son of man, that You think of him? 4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Anonymous

#24. Keep doing what you do, and people that enjoy what you do are gonna buy your music and love on you.

Marvin Sapp

#25. Haydon was more than his model, he was his inspiration, the torch-bearer of a certain kind of English calling which - for the very reason that it was vague and understated and elusive - had made sense of Guillam's life till now.

John Le Carre

#26. Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.

Walter Brueggemann

#27. Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Henry Rollins

#28. If you get frustrated and unhappy with yourself, then there is going to be a problem. You have to laugh at yourself and laugh at your mechanism that is out of gear.

Nirmala Srivastava

#29. The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.

Richard Engel

#30. You feeling uncomfortable?" I immediately nod. Squeezing my ass once more, he places his lips at the shell of my ear. "Good. Get used to it. Because I'm going to do bad things to you.

Belle Aurora

#31. I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Jerome K. Jerome