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Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it. — Maurice Druon

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. — Stephen Ambrose

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. — Jeffrey Eugenides

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers) — Samuel Johnson

Beyond the first few thousand words of English, many words are expansions of more basic words through the addition of morphemes — Grabe

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. — Mark Twain

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds. — Eva Mendes

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that. — JJ Feild

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it. — Louis Menand

British garden history is best understood as a small incident in the histories of ideas, design and technology. — Tom Turner

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland. — Gyorgy Ligeti

I tell anyone who asks me - Scholes is the best English player. — Laurent Blanc

We English have sex on the brain. Not the best place for it, actually. — Laurence Harvey

English is my second language. Laughter is my first. — Paul Krassner

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me. — John Fowles

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson

The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest! — Michael Flanders

Love is the most important word in the English language
and the most confusing. — Gary Chapman

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. — Al-Waleed Bin Talal

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. — John Wycliffe

An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously. — Bernie Glassman

English physicians kill you, the French let you die. — Charles Lamb

My folks were English ... we were too poor to be British. — Bob Hope

You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English. — Robert Aickman

To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English to sign my name. — Liu Dan

Good things come to those who wait. English Proverb — Bey Deckard

I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure. — Jim Crace

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before. — John Edward Williams

Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays. — Terry Teachout

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament. — Aleister Crowley

I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer. — Carla Bruni

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course. — Joan Collins

Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I've ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend. — Joey Barton

Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.) — Jeff Jarvis

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war. — Roger Waters

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects. — John Donne

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable. — Winston Churchill

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers. — Raymond Chandler

It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse. — Shelly Crane

I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times. — Jo Walton

Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End — Ken Scott

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. — William Golding

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'. — Evan Daugherty

I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had. — Nell Zink

English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary. — Bernardo Bertolucci

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English. — John C. Hawkes

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage. — Marilyn Vos Savant

-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?
I said nothing.
-Deny it,damn you! — Michael Ondaatje

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English. — Iman

I was an English major. — Jenna Bush

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

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American. — James Hunter

Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it's important but he doesn't know what to do with it. — Adam Cooper

Always I am speaking English on behalf of fools — Michael Pitre

If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language. — Raj Thackeray

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world. — Carrie Fisher

Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise ["Absolute English," Aeon, February 4, 2015]. — Michael Gordin

I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first. — Prince Royce

His third-floor bedroom wasn't an all-American room. It was an all-English room, lacking only a three-pronged outlet and a draft. — Peter Smith

Only one god. Strange, that you English, who gather about you so many things, are content with one only. — Geraldine Brooks

I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England. — Olivia Hussey

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

My master's degree was in English literature. — Sylvia Browne

The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn. — J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.

No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words. — Philip Pullman

It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony. — George G. Williams

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. — James Otis

... gloom never forsakes the English... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American. — Gerald Vizenor

He quite liked the English. They tended to say sorry a lot, which was quite understandable given their heritage and the crimes of their ancestors. — Terry Pratchett

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English. — Hiroyuki Sanada

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books. — Per Petterson

The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it. — Alister E. McGrath

But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation. — John Dryden

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story. — Eric Bana

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English. — Joe Hill

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community. — Carolina Herrera

First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful. — Anne Rice

I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt

But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another. — Aleister Crowley

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego. — Charisma Carpenter

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats — Honore De Balzac

A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH. — Elizabeth Wein

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other? — Mary Rose O'Reilley

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur — Doug Larson