Top 13 Typical English Quotes

#1. The typical Irish peasant ate about 10 pounds of potatoes each day and soon towered in physical size over their rural English equivalents who mainly ate bread.

Rashers Tierney

#2. John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish

Gareth Barry

#3. It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.

Mark Steyn

#4. The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

#5. There's a popular saying that the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Desire and innovation will trump policy, the argument goes, as clever programmers circumvent controls.

Virginia Postrel

#6. When he came there was no light. When he left there was no darkness.

Mark Batterson

#7. The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.

Neville Weston

#8. Yes, I like sitting at a table in the sun,' I agreed, 'but I'm afraid I'm one of those typical English tourists who always wants a cup of tea.

Barbara Pym

#9. With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?

James Crawford

#10. I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone else was a maths or economics major; most everyone else had relatives or family in banking.

Philipp Meyer

#11. Turing exclaiming once, "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mundane brain, something like the president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company.

James Gleick

#12. My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.

Charles Stross

#13. There wasn't a single good character in 'Titanic' who was English and this is typical.

David Warner

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