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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

We have not yet begun to fight!" as said by my relative aboard the Bon Homme Richard when the English asked them to surrender as it was about to sink. — Richard Dale

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

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about. — Alan Moore

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad. — Jet Li

I didn't know anything about fashion. I couldn't believe it when I got here. I don't know how I'm sitting here right now speaking English. — Adriana Lima

[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

Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation. — Robert Peel

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

What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English. — Marilyn Hacker

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you. — Jim Broadbent

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

I didn't understand anything about fashion until I moved to Canada when I was 9. That's when I learned English and was exposed to fashion magazines. — Jason Wu

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything. — Maya Angelou

The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer? — Thom Yorke

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

If there are three words in the English language worse than "Got a minute?" they can only be "About last night ... — Meg Cabot

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

I know the English are terribly sentimental about the sea, but I can live without it. — Libba Bray

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

There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about. — E.B. White

One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather. — Deanna Raybourn

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. — James Agate

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

Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. — H.L. Mencken

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 would you call them in English?" She thought about it for a moment. "Canadians, — Rick Riordan

What is it about the English countryside
why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so? — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language. — Margaret Cho

Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind. — Kami Garcia

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

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English. — Isaac Hanson

I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it. — Barbara Pym

'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

A lot of people don't know enough about me. When I meet people who freak out about Game of Thrones, they don't even know that I can speak English. — Jason Momoa

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

I'm English. We're about as tactful as a hot poker up the bum, most of the time. — L.H. Thomson

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

I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel. — Gwen Moore

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

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it. — Idris Elba

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 must remember about chandeliers and dancing, about swans and roses and snow. — Jean Rhys

In my first season I was learning about English football in a new team. I scored 13 which isn't bad, but I think I can do better. — Luis Garcia

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

Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people — Jan Morris

What was it about English speakers that allowed them to talk into transmitters as if the sky were a diary? — Adam Johnson

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. — Rachel Weisz