#english people

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think. ↗

— Colin Firth

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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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