English authors
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| Author (number of quotes) | Description |
| A | |
| Adams, Douglas (26) | English author |
| Addison, Joseph (6) | English author |
| Amis, Martin (1) | British novelist |
| Anthony, Piers (1) | English-American author |
| Arnold, Matthew (2) | English poet |
| Ashton, Kevin (2) | British technology pioneer |
| Atkinson, Rowan (1) | English comedian |
| Auden, Wystan Hugh (1) | English author |
| Austen, Jane (15) | English author |
| B | |
| Babbage, Charles (2) | English mathematician, philosopher, inventor |
| Bacon, Francis (19) | English philosopher, statesman |
| Bacon, Roger (2) | English philosopher |
| Bagehot, Walter (2) | English businessman, author and journalist |
| Bagnold, Enid (1) | British author |
| Bale, Christian (2) | English-American actor |
| Banksy (1) | English-based graffiti artist |
| Barrow, John D. (1) | English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician |
| Baxter, Beverly (1) | Canadian-English journalist |
| Beerbohm, Max (1) | English essayist, parodist |
| Bellamy, Matthew James (1) | English musician, composer and singer |
| Belloc, Hilaire (1) | French-born English poet |
| Bennett, Alan (2) | British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author |
| Benson, Edward Frederic (1) | English novelist, biographer and short story writer |
| Berger, John (1) | English art critic, novelist |
| Betjeman, John (1) | English author and poet |
| Binmore, Ken (1) | British mathematician and economist |
| Blair, Tony (1) | British politician |
| Blake, William (7) | English poet and painter |
| Blunt, Emily (1) | English actress |
| Bon, Simon Le (1) | English musician |
| Bowen, Elizabeth (1) | English-Irish-born author |
| Bowie, David (3) | English musician, actor and producer |
| Boyle, Robert (1) | Irish-English physicist and chemist |
| Bragg, William Henry (1) | English physicist and chemist |
| Branson, Richard (1) | English businessman |
| Bray, Thomas (1) | English clergyman |
| Brogan, Denis William (1) | English author and historian |
| Bronowski, Jacob (2) | English mathematician, biologist |
| Bronte, Charlotte (6) | English author |
| Brooks, Michael (1) | English author |
| Brown, Derren (1) | English magician and author |
| Browne, Thomas (2) | English author |
| Browning, Robert (3) | English poet |
| Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (2) | English author, poet, politician |
| Bunyan, John (1) | English-born author and clergyman |
| Burgess, Anthony (2) | English author, poet, composer, and translator |
| Burton, Robert (1) | English scientist and clergyman |
| Butler, Samuel (7) | English author |
| C | |
| Carroll, Lewis (6) | pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English author and poet |
| Cecil, William (1) | English statesman |
| Chaplin, Charlie (6) | English actor, director |
| Chatterton, Thomas (1) | English poet |
| Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (2) | English author |
| Christie, Agatha (18) | English author |
| Churchill, Winston (20) | English politician, author |
| Clapton, Eric (1) | English guitarist, singer and composer |
| Clarke, Arthur Charles (7) | English author |
| Cleese, John Marwood (1) | English comedian, author and producer |
| Clegg, Brian (1) | English author |
| Clifford, William Kingdon (1) | English mathematician and philosopher |
| Collins, Joan (1) | English actress |
| Collins, John Churton (1) | English literary critic |
| Collins, Lily (1) | English-American actress and model |
| Colton, Charles Caleb (6) | English clergyman, author |
| Connolly, Cyril Vernon (1) | English literary critic and writer |
| Conrad, Joseph (2) | Polish-born English author |
| Cowper, William (2) | English poet |
| Crick, Francis (2) | British molecular biologist, biophysicist and neuroscientist |
| Crowley, Aleister (2) | English-born occultist, author |
| D | |
| Dahl, Roald (1) | Norwegian-born English author |
| Dalberg-Acton, John (2) | English historian, politician, and writer |
| Dalton, John (1) | English physicist and chemist |
| Darwin, Charles (11) | English scientist |
| Darwin, Francis (1) | English botanist |
| Davis, William (1) | English journalist |
| Dawkins, Richard (25) | British evolutionary biologist and author |
| Delevingne, Cara (1) | English model |
| Devlin, Keith (4) | British writer, mathematician |
| Dickens, Charles (15) | English author |
| Dirac, Paul (3) | English physicist |
| Disraeli, Benjamin (10) | English author and politician |
| Donne, John (1) | English poet |
| Douglas, Norman (1) | English author |
| Downham, Jenny (1) | British novelist |
| Dryden, John (4) | English author, poet |
| Durrell, Gerald (4) | English zoologist and author |
| E | |
| Eliot, George (7) | English author |
| Ellis, Henry Havelock (3) | English psychologist and author |
| Ertz, Susan (1) | English author |
| F | |
| Faraday, Michael (1) | English physicist and chemist |
| Fforde, Jasper (2) | British novelist |
| Fiennes, Ralph (2) | English actor |
| Fisher, Ronald (1) | English statistician, biologist and geneticist |
| Fowles, John (1) | English author |
| Franklin, Rosalind (1) | English chemist and X-ray crystallographer |
| Frost, David (2) | English television host, media personality, journalist, comedian, and writer |
| Fry, Stephen (2) | English comedian, author and actor |
| Fuller, Thomas (2) | English clergyman and historian |
| G | |
| Gaiman, Neil (39) | English author and poet |
| Gaskarth, Alex (1) | English-American singer and musician |
| Gladwell, Malcolm (4) | English-born Canadian journalist, author, and speaker |
| Gledhill, Ruth (1) | English journalist |
| Golding, William (3) | English author and poet |
| Goulding, Ellie (1) | English singer and songwriter |
| Graham, Paul (1) | English essayist and programmer |
| Grayling, A. C. (5) | English philosopher |
| Greene, Graham (1) | English author |
| Gribbin, John (2) | English physicist and author |
| H | |
| Haddon, Mark (1) | English novelist and poet |
| Hamilton, Lewis (2) | English driver |
| Hardy, Tom (1) | English actor |
| Harris, Joanne (8) | English author |
| Harrison, George (1) | English musician, singer and songwriter, the lead guitarist of the Beatles |
| Hawking, Stephen (13) | English physicist |
| Hayek, Friedrich (13) | British economist and philosopher |
| Heber, Reginald (1) | English bishop |
| Hepburn, Audrey (5) | English–Dutch-born American-English actress |
| Hiddleston, Tom (4) | English actor |
| Hitchcock, Alfred (1) | English director, producer, screenwriter |
| Hitchens, Christopher (5) | British American author and journalist |
| Hope, Bob (5) | English-born American comedian |
| Hornby, Nick (4) | English author |
| Horowitz, Anthony (1) | English author |
| I | |
| Iyer, Pico (2) | full name Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer, British-born essayist and novelist of Indian origin |
| J | |
| James, E. L. (1) | pen name of Erika Mitchell, English author |
| James, Henry (2) | American-born English author |
| Jerome, Jerome K. (1) | English writer and humorist |
| John, Elton (1) | English composer, musician and singer |
| Johnson, Barbara (2) | English-American author |
| Johnson, Samuel (10) | English author and poet |
| Jowett, Benjamin (1) | English theologian |
| K | |
| Keats, John (2) | English poet |
| Keynes, John Maynard (2) | English mathematician, economist |
| Kingsley, Charles (1) | English author and historian |
| Kipling, Joseph Rudyard (3) | English author and poet |
| Knightley, Keira (2) | English actress |
| L | |
| Larson, Doug (10) | English runner |
| Lawrence, D. H. (8) | full name David Herbert Richards Lawrence, English author, poet, literary critic and painter |
| Lawrence, Mark (1) | American and British novelist |
| Lee, Christopher (2) | English actor |
| Leigh, Vivien (1) | English actress |
| Lennon, John (10) | English musician and singer-songwriter, one of the founding members of The Beatles |
| Livingstone, Ian (1) | English author and entrepreneur |
| Locke, John (3) | English philosopher, doctor, politician |
| Lovelace, Richard (1) | English poet |
| M | |
| Macaulay, Thomas Babington (2) | English politician and author |
| Macmillan, Maurice Harold (1) | English politician |
| Malik, Zayn (5) | stage name of Zain Jawadd Malik, English singer |
| Marshall, Peter (2) | English author |
| Maugham, William Somerset (4) | English author |
| McCartney, Paul (1) | English musician |
| McEwan, Ian (1) | English author |
| Medawar, Peter (2) | Brazilian-English biologist |
| Mercury, Freddie (1) | English musician, singer of the Queen |
| Michael, George (1) | stage name of Georgios-Kyriacos Panayiotou, Greek -born English singer |
| Mill, John Stuart (2) | English philosopher |
| Milton, John (3) | English poet, politician |
| Montagu, Elizabeth (1) | English-born author |
| Moore, Roger (1) | English actor and producer |
| Morris, William (1) | English artist, writer |
| Mott, Nevill Francis (1) | English physicist |
| N | |
| Newman, John Henry (1) | English-born priest |
| Newton, Isaac (3) | English physicist and mathematician |
| Nicholls, David (3) | English author |
| Nizer, Louis (1) | English-born American lawyer and author |
| Noble, Hannah (1) | English model |
| O | |
| Odell, Tom (1) | English-born composer and singer |
| Oldman, Gary (2) | English actor, author, filmdirector, and producer |
| Orwell, George (17) | English author, criticist, journalist |
| Osbourne, Ozzy (4) | pen name of John Michael Osbourne, English singer |
| Ottolenghi, Yotam (1) | Israeli-British chef, restaurant owner, and food writer |
| Owen, Clive (1) | English actor |
| P | |
| Page, Jimmy (1) | English musician, composer |
| Paine, Thomas (6) | English-American author and politician |
| Parker, Gilbert (1) | Canadian-born English author and politician |
| Parkinson, Cyril Northcote (1) | English historian |
| Pattinson, Robert (1) | English-born actor, modell, musician |
| Payne, Liam (1) | English singer |
| Penrose, Roger (3) | English mathematician and physicist |
| Pierce, Edith Lovejoy (1) | English-American poet |
| Pinero, Arthur Wing (1) | English actor, author and director |
| Pinter, Harold (1) | English screenwriter, director and actor |
| Pope, Alexander (5) | English poet |
| Pratchett, Terry (42) | English author |
| Q | |
| Quincey, Thomas de (1) | English author |
| R | |
| Rathbone, Basil (1) | South Africa-born English actor |
| Rees, Martin (2) | British cosmologist and astrophysicist |
| Rickman, Alan (2) | English actor |
| Ridley, Matt (5) | English journalist, author, businessman |
| Ritchie, Guy (1) | English screenwriter and movie maker |
| Roache, Linus (1) | English actor |
| Roddick, Anita (1) | British businesswoman |
| Rossetti, Christina (1) | English poet |
| Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1) | English poet |
| Rowling, J. K. (9) | English author |
| Rushdie, Salman (1) | British Indian novelist and essayist |
| Ruskin, John (2) | English art critic |
| Russell, Bertrand (31) | English mathematician, philosopher |
| S | |
| Sacks, Oliver (1) | English neurologist |
| Sayers, Dorothy L. (1) | English crime writer, poet |
| Service, Robert (1) | English-Canadian author and poet |
| Shakespeare, William (13) | English playwright, poet, actor |
| Sheeran, Ed (3) | English singer and songwriter |
| Shelley, Mary (4) | English author |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe (2) | English poet |
| Sheppard, Mark (1) | English actor, musician and producer |
| Sheridan, Nicollette (1) | English actress |
| Sinek, Simon (3) | English author, motivational speaker |
| Sitwell, Edith (1) | British poet and critic |
| Southey, Robert (1) | English poet |
| Speedman, Scott (1) | English-born Canadian actor |
| Spencer, Herbert (1) | English philosopher, biologist |
| Statham, Jason (1) | English actor, producer, and martial artist |
| Stevens, Dan (1) | English actor |
| Styles, Harry (3) | English pop singer and actor |
| Suzuma, Tabitha (1) | English author |
| Sykes, Oliver (1) | English musician |
| T | |
| Tennyson, Alfred (2) | English poet |
| Tomlinson, Louis (3) | English singer |
| Trevelyan, George M. (1) | British historian |
| Turing, Alan (1) | English mathematician |
| Turner, Alex (1) | English singer and songwriter |
| Tynan, Kenneth (1) | English author |
| U | |
| Ustinov, Peter (3) | English actor, director, author |
| W | |
| Walpole, Horace (1) | pen name of Horatio Walpole, English author, politician |
| Watson, Emma (2) | English actress and model |
| Watts, Alan Wilson (3) | British-American philosopher |
| Waugh, Evelyn (2) | English author |
| West, Rebecca (2) | pen name of Cicely Isabel Fairfield, English author |
| Westwick, Ed (1) | English actor and musician |
| Whately, Richard (2) | English theologian and author |
| Whitehead, Alfred North (5) | English-born American philosopher |
| Williams, Bernard (1) | English philosopher |
| Winehouse, Amy (1) | English singer and songwriter |
| Winterson, Jeanette (1) | English author |
| Wisdom, Norman (1) | English actor and comedian |
| Woolf, Virginia (6) | English author |
| Wordsworth, William (2) | English poet |
| Wright, Bonnie (1) | English actress |
| Wyatt, Woodrow (1) | English politician and author |
| Y | |
| Youngman, Henny (14) | stage name of Henry Youngman, English-born American comedian |