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 |