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Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.
— Amish Tripathi
I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.
— Calvin Trillin
Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
— Daniel Alarcon
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and ... ants. I can understand ants.
— A.S. Byatt
The way I think or sing about something is very different if it is in Spanish or English.
— Prince Royce
The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.
— George Orwell
I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.
— William Safire
It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
— Edmund Wilson
The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
— Stephen Leacock
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
— Jet Li
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[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
— C. Wright Mills
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
— Margaret Atwood
The more you know about English, the less you're likely to think there are unbreakable "rules" for a lot of things.
— Bill Walsh
Sometimes I want to joke but my English isn't perfect. Sometimes people are wondering what I'm talking about.
— Alexander Ovechkin
We have to be concerned about the gun killing that people who are Americans, who are Irish, and who are English, who are all around the country.
— Dalia Mogahed
The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.
— Terry Pratchett
There's a certain Englishness about the English game
— Mike Parry
I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.
— Anne Rice
My Geordie is probably just about as bad as my English.
— George W. Bush
And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
— Cornelia Funke
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.
— James Delingpole
It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.
— Eric Cantona
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
— V.S. Pritchett
Only one god. Strange, that you English, who gather about you so many things, are content with one only.
— Geraldine Brooks
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
— Germaine Greer
Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.
— Richard Hugo
Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.
— John Oliver
The nearest inhabited village is about seven of your English miles to the left.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.
— Martin Amis
What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English SWELL and LOUSY. — Vicki Baum
What is it about the English countrysidewhy is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so? — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.
— Daniel Radcliffe
He'd tried to talk to you about anarchy yesterday but his English and your French conspired against the dialog.
— Ian Rankin
There's just something about being English. When you travel the world you feel more grateful.
— Dizzee Rascal
English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.
— Norman Spinrad
'You remember asking me if I'd ever begged?' I wiped the corner of my eyes, sniffed. 'Is this about to get kinky?' — Josh Lanyon
I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.
— Wayne Rooney
When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
— Jack McDevitt
I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.
— Diego Maradona
One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.
— Andrew Hoberek
Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.
— Tom Hooper
center. He said no. He said, in very fine English, 'I buy, I don't sell.' Then he escorted me out. But I think that was Tran. Something about him.
— Michael Connelly
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.
— Rob Delaney
The word hope first appeared in English about a thousand years ago, denoting some combination of confidence and desire. But
— Paul Kalanithi
I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.
— Daniel Radcliffe
I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.
— Julian Barnes
There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.
— James Gray
Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
— Preston Sturges
When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.
— G.K. Chesterton
I don't know a lot about the Scots, but I'm aware they have beaten some of the English counties in the NCL and have gone close in other matches,
— Justin Langer
When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.
— Craig Ferguson
Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.
— Russell L. Ackoff
I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
— J.K. Rowling
You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.
— Elaine Dundy
The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it.
— Howard Tomb
About GreenHollyWood who is this character?? My English teacher a fat guy about 30 or 35 years old with Glasses and short Hair.
— Deyth Banger
I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.
— Marcus Mumford
