#english

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#agent #america #english #i #lose

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#character #commonplace #english #insular #joke

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history? ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#affected #between #character #course #differences

An English man does not travel to see English men. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#english #man #men #see #travel

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#english #fact #happy #i #into

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese. ↗

— Amy Tan

#chinese #english #got #her #i

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#i #interested #not interested #received #scripts

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#english #everything #furniture #heavy #i

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#despite #english #fact #i #i think

You don't believe it because you don't understand," he said hoarsely. "Prosper was different. He wasn't like other people. He might have hated me, but he loved me too. In his own way. He couldn't help it; not after raising me for all those years." When no one responded – when he saw nothing but expressions of disbelief on the faces around him – Cadel wailed, "He did! He did! I know he did! He only wanted to wreck my life because he wasn't a part of it!" And as sympathetic hands reached out towards him from every corner of the car, Cadel began to cry like someone whose heart was breaking. ↗

— Catherine Jinks

#prosper-english #life