#english

The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#always #delightful #doubt #english #every

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#chained #england #english #evade #fate

My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all. ↗

— Andy Murray

#english people #fitness #friends #i #people

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin. ↗

— Aristotle Onassis

#find #like #look #priest #understands

Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America. ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

#english #go #just #oh #probably

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#die #english #ideas #kill #neglect

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's. ↗

— Christopher Plummer

#american #american culture #culture #english #flatten

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#female #genitals #had #hard #inadvertently

Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#always #among #armaments #demand #disarmament

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#feel #get #had #i #i feel