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The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping. Votes: 1
Michael HutchenceI understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away. Votes: 1
Sofia VergaraI love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch. Votes: 1
Eva GreenSpices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I've always loved the Mediterranean flavors. Votes: 1
Todd EnglishThe perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English. Votes: 0
Julius Caesar ScaligerUsually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily. Votes: 0
Natalia MakarovaAmerican professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. Votes: 0
Gordie HoweThe English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praisingthemselves. Votes: 0
Wyndham LewisUsually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily. Votes: 0
Natalia MakarovaThe English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves. Votes: 0
Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of SullyChristopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language. Votes: 0
Christopher BuckleyI was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. Votes: 0
Rachel WeiszI've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them. Votes: 0
Audrey TautouThere are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate. Votes: 0
Neville MarrinerI imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. Votes: 0
Peter UstinovThe English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth. Votes: 0
David E. GoldbergWillmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature. Votes: 0
William Rounseville AlgerMost English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting. Votes: 0
Nicholas HaslamThe English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. Votes: 0
Alexander WoollcottCivilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. Votes: 0
Malcolm MuggeridgePeople like Shakira shouldnt have record contracts. She cant even speak English. Votes: 0
Avril LavigneThe English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country. Votes: 0
Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of SullyThe English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light. Votes: 0
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningEvery American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinI can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass. Votes: 0
Tyler OakleyThe English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithThere are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors. Votes: 0
Vanna BontaMy mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French. Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovI'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses. Votes: 0
Ben ElliotEnglish? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England! Votes: 0
Dan CastellanetaSeriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent. Votes: 0
Stephanie PerkinsHumor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. Votes: 0
Malcolm MuggeridgeEnglish words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. Votes: 0
Denis JohnsonA Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches. Votes: 0
Jonathan SacksAll messages from Satan are played forward and are in standard American English. Votes: 0
George CarlinThe upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. Votes: 0
D. H. LawrenceThe world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonEven English Language doesn't provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success. Votes: 0
Kshitij ShringiThere are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors Votes: 0
Vanna BontaEnglish is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life. Votes: 0
S. I. HayakawaAs long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonFEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'. Votes: 0
Neale Donald WalschThe Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race. Votes: 0
Walt WhitmanI was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. Votes: 0
William MapotherWhat soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareI have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times. Votes: 0
Steve KanalyWriting is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses. Votes: 0
John IrvingI hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress. Votes: 0
Hani FurstenbergI'm adapting quite well to English football with the same will I've always had. Votes: 0
Sergio AgueroThe English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping Votes: 0
Michael HutchenceAll the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyI'm English and, as such, I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Votes: 0
Bill BaileyYou can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English. Votes: 0
Rosabeth Moss KanterAw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind. Votes: 0
Kami GarciaAn English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever. Votes: 0
Jonathan SwiftIt is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government. Votes: 0
Margaret ThatcherAre there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow? Votes: 0
Jennifer FlackettAll the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words. Votes: 0
Bernard PivotOnly in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.' Votes: 0
Liz WilliamsLaistry....I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?" "Canadians. Votes: 0
Rick RiordanI'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats. Votes: 0
Philip TreacyThe English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. Votes: 0
Will RogersThe English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. Votes: 0
Edward BondOne is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather. Votes: 0
Deanna RaybournIf you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English? Votes: 0
Olivier MartinezIf something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English. Votes: 0
Dan CastellanetaWhy should I learn English? I'm never going to England. Shah, pffff, ur, doy. Votes: 0
Christopher TitusBeing English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms. Votes: 0
Elizabeth HurleyThe English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. Votes: 0
Thomas BeechamBut 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation. Votes: 0
John DrydenEnglish women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes. Votes: 0
Trinny WoodallThere is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity. Votes: 0
Jim ButcherThe English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeThe four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why. Votes: 0
Wendy AlexanderI avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me. Votes: 0
David HockneyThe English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. Votes: 0
James AgateBut the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different. Votes: 0
Larry McMurtryDo not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever. Votes: 0
Libba BrayIt takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithCulture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. Votes: 0
Raymond WilliamsThe number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. Votes: 0
Stephen AmbroseI believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiI speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. Votes: 0
Isabel AllendeThe trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question. Votes: 0
Katharine TynanWe can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales. Votes: 0
Evelyn WaughEnglish vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are. Votes: 0
Deborah HarknessSometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem. Votes: 0
Shirley Geok-lin LimThe English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is. Votes: 0
Nancy MitfordThere is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. Votes: 0
Zadie SmithOthers may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode. Votes: 0
Edmund WallerHer frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent. Votes: 0
Hector Hugh MunroWell, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. Votes: 0
David AttenboroughI speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English. Votes: 0
Maya AngelouNine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century. Votes: 0
C.P. SnowTo get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiLet us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian! Votes: 0
John A. MacdonaldI lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain. Votes: 0
Alan BennettThe funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles. Votes: 0
Garrison KeillorOpera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenWhere shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man? Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauWhen the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done. Votes: 0
Jose BergaminI like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world. Votes: 0
Malcolm BradburyI was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie. Votes: 0
Aishwarya Rai BachchanThe reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage. Votes: 0
Camille PagliaI think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. Votes: 0
Daniel RadcliffeThe Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. Votes: 0
Wilfrid LaurierI'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on Votes: 0
Lauren GrahamThe English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleThe English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. Votes: 0
Margaret HalseyTheir perfect English accents. As if serving all their vowels on a fine set of tongs. Votes: 0
Colum McCannChildren learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. Votes: 0
Jeffrey EugenidesThe American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of Votes: 0
William Carlos WilliamsIs there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit? Votes: 0
Erica JongI'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid. Votes: 0
Alessandro NivolaMy mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school. Votes: 0
Tatiana MaslanyI haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now. Votes: 0
Robert BenchleyI write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language. Votes: 0
Daniel AlarconIf one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure. Votes: 0
Cesc FabregasIt is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with. Votes: 0
Kingsley AmisI was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much. Votes: 0
Geraldine ChaplinI wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors. Votes: 0
Catherine DeneuveI can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages. Votes: 0
Azim PremjiI do not speak the English so good, but then I speak the driving very well. Votes: 0
Emerson FittipaldiI once met a beautiful, proper English girl. I bid her adieu.... she bid me a don't. Votes: 0
Rodney DangerfieldI write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs. Votes: 0
Violante PlacidoThe English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect. Votes: 0
Jeremy PaxmanI went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech. Votes: 0
Tom StoppardI had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college. Votes: 0
Christie HefnerEven if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? Votes: 0
Clarence DarrowWhat an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse Votes: 0
John HampdenIf I was English would I be respected a bit more? Yes, I think so, that's the truth. Votes: 0
Kevin KilbaneI went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school. Votes: 0
Jackie ChanHe seems to have declared war on the Kingâs English as well as on the English king.
Arthur Conan DoyleA smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.
Mahatma GandhiBy ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
Mahatma GandhiUnfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.
Arsene WengerHELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.
Bertrand RussellThe tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book ...
Catharine BeecherDan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
Edmund SpenserI want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.
Mahatma GandhiI always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.
Robert EnglundIs it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.
Eddie VedderIt is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
Edmund WilsonI'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
Emmanuel JalCholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.
Padgett PowellI learned English from American pros. That's why I speak so bad. I call it PGA English.
Roberto De VicenzoI think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.
William HogarthIt is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
Winston ChurchillNo serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.
Frederic G. KenyonThey (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.
Harry CarayA lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.
Hiroyuki SanadaAmerican English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.
J. R. R. TolkienI used to say, "Go boldly in among the English," and then I used to go boldly in myself.
Joan of ArcThe English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
Mahatma GandhiEnglish was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.
Miriam A. FergusonI am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
Oscar WildeForget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Thomas B. MacaulayEconomists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.
Al NicholAmericans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
Carl AndreFreedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.
John DrydenThe English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.
Peter MayleANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonWithin five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIs it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?
Edward JenksThere is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
Heinrich HeineThe English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.
Julien Offray de La MettrieNeither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
Aravind AdigaThere are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.
Bob HopeThe oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
Charles ChurchillFair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
Freya StarkWhy would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food?
Jon StewartI used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle
KRS-OneFor me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
Radha MitchellEnglish is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
Vaclav HavelI do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."
Charles SpurgeonSpeaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
Edward R. MurrowI don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.
Grace JonesSo far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.
H. P. LovecraftThe only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.
Jacques ChiracIt is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.
John Jeremiah SullivanAt home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.
Matthew RhysA person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
Ngugi wa Thiong'oThey said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.
Roddy McDowallWe've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
Chuck PalahniukOf all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
Elias CanettiIn fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.
Erich FrommGerman and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
George Bernard ShawThe English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard ShawOne of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
Lafcadio HearnThe English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!
Michael FlandersAmerica believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.
Quentin CrispForeign newspapers: if they've got nothing to hide, how come they don't print them in English?
Stephen ColbertEngland is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English.
Dave BarryOnce, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland
Gyorgy LigetiYou got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.
Josh LanyonLiberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.
Malcolm XI've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism
Michael YorkShe spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all.
Bob HopeI'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.
David BowieIn English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.
Nhat HanhThose who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'RourkeThere are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.
W. H. AudenBut of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.
Walter BagehotIf you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.
Alfred KahnUse short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
Ernest HemingwayThe way I putted today, I must've been reading the greens in Spanish and putting them in English.
Homero BlancasComedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.
Kate BushEnglish people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonEnglish history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.
Terry PratchettI hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.
Daniel ToshThey [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
Edmund WilsonEnglish rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.
Maureen JohnsonGod bless whoever invented football. It was the English, I think. And what a fantastic idea it was
Paolo RossiI have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.
Patrice EvraI guess the most interesting thing that people think is I'm English [because of The Mighty Boosh].
Rich FulcherSo, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English
Sophie MarceauI write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.
William MonahanFor this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.
Alfred Lord TennysonMaking a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western
Ang LeeThe ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.
Harvey MackayWithout the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.
John DeweyI am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.
Michael ScottWhat is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.
Ngugi wa Thiong'oWho but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?
Richard RussoDon't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.
William GoldingI don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.
Christopher CastellaniAn agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.
Jane SeymourThe Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.
Jean GionoI'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.
Jon Bon JoviThe English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.
Karel CapekHowever virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.
Mahatma GandhiI admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
Maya AngelouWe get death threats, kidnapping threats. The press criticizes my weight. It's just the English way.
Victoria Beckham