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

Often, Americans think any northern English accent is Australian. — Ryan Cartwright

Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end. — Amish Tripathi

You know what English is? The result of the efforts of Norman men-at-arms to make dates with Saxon barmaids. — H. Beam Piper

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

William the Conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of English sand. — Salman Rushdie

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

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally. — Tom Hooper

Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the English Way — Roger Waters

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

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. — Alexander Pope

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class. — Seth Rogen

Hairwoman is torturing us with essays. Do English teachers spend their vacations dreaming up these things? — Laurie Halse Anderson

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

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do. — William Golding

My English is very bad. — Vladimir Putin

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent. — Alan Rickman

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded. — Henry Watson Fowler

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

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

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

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing. — Alison Goldfrapp

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. — Edward Sapir

The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind. — Gore Vidal

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me. — David Hockney

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it. — Oscar Wilde

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

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

An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one. — Maya Rodale

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language. — Robert E.Lee

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

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

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. — Winston S. Churchill

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

A woman who is praying and a woman who is having fun, they both say " Oh My God", the only difference is how they pronounce it. — M.F. Moonzajer

I love celery and people don't use it a lot. Celery and flavors in that family - it really brightens and is refreshing. — Todd English

Carlos Tevez's English should be better than what it is — Graham Taylor

I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly. — James Carr

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. — Zadie Smith

Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree. — Kamila Shamsie

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director. — Audrey Tautou

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language. — Christopher Walken

'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

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are. — Sean Connery

What has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code. — Dale Spender

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true? — Steve Guttenberg

Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point? — Tucker Carlson

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature. — William Rounseville Alger

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me ... by newspapers and the Bible. — Van Wyck Brooks

Fact.
Pisces is THE most wobbly sign of the Zodiac. — Mary English

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. — Edward Gibbon

It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt. — Antjie Krog

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work. — Matt Mullenweg

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. — Charles Dickens

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. — Rob Delaney

English is becoming a universal language such as humans have never had before. — Minae Mizumura

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

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian. — Siri Hustvedt

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

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

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian. — Helen Mirren

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 favorite pudding is good old English apple pie. — Jeremy Bulloch

The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English. — Tom Hopper

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

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

Love is simple, if you allow it to be simple. Julian to Hannah, Take A Chance — Alison Wong

What is important for my purpose is that it was during the "anti-Fascist" phase that the younger English writers gravitated towards Communism. The — George Orwell

A foreigner could be excused for thinking that to know set is to know English. — Bill Bryson

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

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is. — Nancy Mitford

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

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights. — John McWhorter

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever. — Joss Whedon

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

The English winter is long, cold and wet, just like the English summer — Benny Bellamacina

This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep
That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd
So many English kings. — William Shakespeare

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

Do not follow your present course. It is a dead end. The dead end of the perfect English gentleman. — Guy Vanderhaeghe

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

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English. — Jules Verne

English is now ours. We have colonized it, too. — Gemino Abad

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