T Quotes
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“The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.”
Source: Americans and Others
“The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to legal response”
“The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.”
“The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping”
“The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.”
Source: Thinking it Over: The Reminiscences of Hesketh Pearson
“The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.”
Source: Miscellanies
“The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“The English queen refused to give up her crown, but she decided to give up her power and throne instead.”
“The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.”
“The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.”
Source: Collected letters
“The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.”
“The English seem to relish unsystematic learning of this kind, in the same manner that they embarked upon "Grand Tours" of Europe in pursuit of a peripatetic scholarship.”
Source: Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
“The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.”
Source: Motherland: A Novel
“The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.”
“The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.”
“The English soldier was probably the worst-treated soldier in Europe, and judging from the English casualty rates during the Napoleonic wars, English generals were more lavish with their soldiers' lives than were their French and German colleagues.”
Source: The Age of Napoleon
“The English summer is never far away; it's just above the clouds.”
Source: Philosophical Uplifting Quotes volume 2
“The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.”
“The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country.”
“The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.”
“The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet.
[Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]”
“The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the one American writer whom the English whole-heartedly admire is Walt Whitman. There, you will hear them say, is the real American undisguised. In the whole of English literature there is no figure which resembles his - among all our poetry none in the least comparable to Leaves of Grass”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.”
“The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.”
“The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.”
“The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong.”
“The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.”
“The English were relatively short in the mid-nineteenth century and so their expeditions return with stories some exaggerated, not doubt about "giants" who lived in other parts of the world.”
“The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'”
Source: A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions
“The English will never develop into a nation of philosophers. They will always prefer instinct to logic and character to intelligence. But they must get rid of their downright contempt for 'cleverness'. They cannot afford it any longer. They must grow less tolerant of ugliness, and mentally more adventurous. And they must stop despising foreigners. They are Europeans and ought to be aware of it.”
Source: The Lion and The Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
“The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August”
“The English word anxiety comes from a Latin root which means narrowing down, and in the beginning the word was used for the entry of a soul into a womb. So the first anxiety is felt when a soul enters a womb, because everything is narrowed down; an infinite soul becomes a small body. This is the most painful process possible, as if the whole sky has been forced to enter into a seed. You don't know it because it is so painful that you become totally unconscious.
There are two painful processes. You may have heard Buddha's saying, "Birth is pain, death is pain." These are the greatest pains, the greatest anguishes possible. When the infinite becomes finite in the womb, it is painful, it is anxiety; and when the infinite is taken out of the body again there is anguish and pain.
So whenever someone dies consciously, he disappears. Then there is no more entry into the body. Then there is no more anxiety, because anxiety is the consequence of desire; then you need not be narrowed down because there is no desire to be fulfilled. You can remain infinite; there is no need to enter a vehicle because now you are going nowhere.”
Source: Bird on a Wing
“The english word thanks comes from the same root word as think. Maybe if leaders were more 'think-ful' about the contribution of others, they would be more 'thankful' to them.”
Source: The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs
“The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.”
“The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"”
“The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.”
Source: The spectator
“The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.”
“the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.”
“The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and set some value on it, but the very idea of equality is strange and offensive to them. They do not dislike to have many people above them as long as they have some below them.”
“The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!”
“The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.”
“The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.”
“The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.”
“The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over hedges, through chiffons, through waiters, over saxophones, to the victorious finish; and who goes home depends on how many the ambulance will accommodate.”
Source: Distressing dialogues
“The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.”
Source: The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
“The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.”
Source: Picked-up Pieces
“The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.”
Source: The English Patient
“The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings.”
Source: Wilfrid Laurier on the Platform: Collection of the Principal Speeches Made in Parliament Or Before the People, by the Honorable Wilfrid Laurier ... Member for Quebec-East in the Commons, Since His Entry Into Active Politics in 1871