Top 13 Typical English Quotes
#1. John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish
Gareth Barry
#2. The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.
Neville Weston
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.
Mark Steyn
#7. 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
#8. When he came there was no light. When he left there was no darkness.
Mark Batterson
#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
