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Do not the figures make it clear that not the English, but the Indians, have enslaved themselves?' One
— Leo Tolstoy
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.
— Jim Morrison
I don't know if he was English but he spoke like it. He said good afternoon when everybody else said hardy weather or she looks like rain.
— Patrick McCabe
What's chumming?" I asked, wondering if it was some old English nautical term for making friends.
— Raleigh Blake
The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
— William Hazlitt
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
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
It takes a thorough knowledge of the English language to effectively abuse it.
— Charlene Vermeulen
Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.
— William Golding
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
With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in front of the gloomy inspector.
— Agatha Christie
Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!
— Mao Zedong
I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.
— Tim Roth
But he spoke English better than I, he having mastered it, whereas I was only born to its careless use.
— Talbot Mundy
The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.
— Salvador De Madariaga
When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
— Billy Sunday
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
— Maya Angelou
The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.
— James Whistler
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
It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.
— Billy Bob Thornton
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 learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
— Odette Annable
I believe when you're speaking English, you're allowed to refer to it as Prague.
— Emily St. John Mandel
I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.
— Luke Ford
It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.
— George G. Williams
What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
— Natalie Dormer
Perhaps it doesn't understand English,
— Lewis Carroll
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
I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.
— Pat Conroy
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.
— Juan Manuel Fangio
Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it.
— Sarah Rees Brennan
English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.
— Maureen Johnson
It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.
— Ruby Bentall
Ramsey made the mistake of guessing it didn't and shook his head, gaining him a scowl and a blasphemy from the cantankerous baron
— Julie Garwood
I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.
— John Krasinski
The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect
it is always cautious in the wrong place. — Wilkie Collins
it is always cautious in the wrong place. — Wilkie Collins
Smile, it's contagious
— Rose English
I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.
— David Beckham
Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English.
— Anna Pavlova
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
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 look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
— Jack Prelutsky
Carlos Tevez's English should be better than what it is
— Graham Taylor
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
Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.
— Eddie Vedder
I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do.
— Jeanette Winterson
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
It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
— William Shakespeare
A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
— Stephen Fry
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
One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was the only book which allowed him to forget politics.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
— Golda Meir
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
The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.
— Alister E. McGrath
I do love cricket - it's so very English.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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
-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
I said nothing.
-Deny it,damn you! — Michael Ondaatje
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
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
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
The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.
— Peter Mayle
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
Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
— T. S. Eliot
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
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 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
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
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 four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'
— John Templeton
English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.
— John McWhorter
The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
— Harry Browne
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
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
When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
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
What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley