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I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me. — Anthony Horowitz

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English. — Martin Jacques

Let me live. Keep me alive. Both sentences so close in English, but very different meaning. — Aleksandr Voinov

I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either. — Jon Bon Jovi

I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes. — Joyce Johnson

In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do. — Mary Quant

In a war the last thing the English know is how to practice fair play. — Adolf Hitler

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French. — Sophie Marceau

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

Lady Rowena gasped in horror at the sight of Lord Raoul's majestic purple-helmeted warrior of love. — Katie MacAlister

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 was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie. — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing. — Jim Morrison

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 was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh - I'm English. — Christian Bale

There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood. — Bob Hope

I am up for anything, but my favorite show in the whole world is this English series, 'Skins.' It would be awesome to be able to go on that somehow. — Kevin McHale

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

Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language detected. — M.F. Moonzajer

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible. — Ada Leverson

I'm too tired to speak in English ... — David Ginola

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida. — Walter Legge

English should have a word for that feeling you get when you first wake up in a strange room and have no freaking idea where you are.
Hotezzlement? — David Wong

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. — Raymond Williams

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

I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch. — Eva Green

This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books. — Deyth Banger

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

The English nation is never so great as in adversity. — Benjamin Disraeli

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months. — Kristin Scott Thomas

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

I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak! — Lewis Carroll

I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line. — Jeffrey Steingarten

I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit. — Randy Lerner

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry," said Angus Lordie. "In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find. — Alexander McCall Smith

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object. — Samuel Smiles

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. — Mahatma Gandhi

The English word "coral" also comes from Greek, meaning "what becomes hard in the hand," "the maiden or nymph of the sea," or "the heart of the sea. — Eric H. Borneman

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out. — Joe Strummer

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. — Eric Alterman

A truly English protest march would see us all chanting: 'What do we want? GRADUAL CHANGE! When do we want it? IN DUE COURSE! — Kate Fox

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I. — Elias Canetti

Five of the most exciting words in the English language: "What shall I read next? — Jason Erik Lundberg

The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English. — Harry Browne

This is the first time I will tell my story in English, a language still new to me. The journey to this moment has been a long one. — Hyeonseo Lee

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language. — Christopher Buckley

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.' — John Templeton

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless. — Colin Wilson

We build our futures together, in the words we exchange today. — Sherwood Fleming

Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: Shall we go straight in? — Kingsley Amis

The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better. — Simon Heffer

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence. — Wilfrid Laurier

I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and it's kind of a kick. — Marsha Thomason

Sometimes i want to say it. and there is nothing in english. that will say it. — Nayyirah Waheed

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. — Wallace Stevens

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

Those twin beliefs give rise not to a meek acquiescence to injustice in the world but to a robust determination to oppose it. English — N. T. Wright

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

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. — James Connolly

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot. — Eddie Vedder

The real future of the Hispanic targeted media and advertising is in English. — David Morse

The word hope first appeared in English about a thousand years ago, denoting some combination of confidence and desire. But — Paul Kalanithi

You can't even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels. — Sophie Kinsella

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

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

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

joined one institute in Patel Nagar to accomplish this goal; my English Teacher was strict, but she did not have much knowledge. — Yogesh Saini

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

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

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

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

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

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.

They immediately spent a moment in bemused silence in honor of the perilous little paradox that was the English female — Julie Anne Long

In English we blame others for not understanding us when really it's our fault for not saying what we wanted to say. — Rory Dunlop

Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language — Clotye Murdock Larsson

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

Our English monarchs are so unimaginative," said Eldric. "They execute people in such tediously conventional ways. — Franny Billingsley

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

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American. — Emmanuel Jal

Time to paint your but white and run with antelope-in English- Stop arguing and do as your told. — Charles Martin

Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar. — Lewis Black

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box. — Henry James

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required. — W. H. Auden

I really like acting in English. — Romain Duris

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain. — John Lennon

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service. — Erma Bombeck

She'd majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that. — Rainbow Rowell

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English. — Alaina Huffman

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common. — Stephen Fry

Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart. — Helen Keller

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. — Anthony Trollope

In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. — Bertrand Barere

Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class — Francine Prose

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids. — Bill Condon