When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter.When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

-Amis, Martin Louis
  The Moronic Inferno,'Kurt Vonnegut'.

Quamdiu centum viui remanserint, nuncquam Anglorum dominio aliquatenus volumus subjugari. As long as one hundred of us shall remain alive, we shall never consent to subject ourselves in any degree to English dominion.

-Anonymous
  Declaration of  Arbroath, a letter sent by the barons of Scotland to Pope John XXII, asserting Scotland's independence from England and their right to defend that independence with or without the support of their sovereign.

I don't know, darlin', but I think it was somethin' he did against the English.

-Anonymous
  Unidentified Irish nurse in the US answering an infant's question on the cause of Oscar Wilde's imprisonment, reported by Kenneth Wiggins Porter.

[The translator] will find one English book and one only, where, as in the Iliad itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book isthe Bible.

-Arnold, Matthew
On Translating Homer, lecture 3.

Philistinism!öWe have not the expression in English. Perhapswehavenottheword because wehavesomuch of the thing.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Essays in Criticism First Series,'Heinrich Heine'.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

-Bagehot,Walter
  Estimates of Some Englishmen and Some Scotchmen,'The First Edinburgh Reviewers'.

   Les Anglais, a'   la ve¤  rite¤  , ajoutent par ci, par la'  , quelques autres mots en conversant; mais il est bien aise¤   de voir que God-dam est le fond de la langue. In truth, the English do add here and there other words when speaking, but it is obvious that Goddamn is the basis of their language.

-Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de
  Le Mariage de Figaro, act 3, sc.5.

The Englishmay not likemusicöbuttheyabsolutely love the noise it makes.

-Beecham, SirThomas
Quoted in L  Ayre The Wit of Music (1930).

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

-Benchley, Robert Charles
  After1903ö What?

There are English counties like hunting-tunes Played on the keys of a postboy's horn, But I will remember where I was born.

-Bene¤  t, StephenVincent
  'American Names'.

J'adore ce cricket; c'est tellement Anglais. I do so love cricketöit's so very English.

-Bernard
c.1905  On being taken to see a game of football in Manchester. Quoted in R Buckle Nijinsky (1971).

My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Innocence,'The Little Black Boy'.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. 148

-Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley
  Eating People Is Wrong, ch.5.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

-Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley
  Stepping Westward, bk.2, ch.5.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

-Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley
  Stepping Westward, bk.2, ch.5.

   In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'The Soldier'.

Here tulips bloom as theyare told; Unkempt about those hedges blows An English unofficial rose.

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'.

Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees, (If love remains) In an English lane.

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'De Gustibus'.

We're bought and sold for English gold, Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

-Burns, Robert
  'Such a parcel of rogues in a nation', stanza 3.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

-Butler, Samuel
  Erewhon.