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I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.
— Joyce Johnson
Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.
— Richard Dawkins
I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts
— Margaret Thatcher
Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.
— William Monahan
To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.
— Jack Lynch
The way I think or sing about something is very different if it is in Spanish or English.
— Prince Royce
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
Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
— Cyril Cusack
There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.
— Joely Richardson
I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The English artist likes line more than color or texture.
— Neville Weston
You accept that you are English. You don't pretend that you'd rather be French or Italian or something else.
— John Fowles
Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.
— Raymond Williams
All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.
— Bernard Pivot
Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English
but are great in remembering signs — Karl Lagerfeld
but are great in remembering signs — Karl Lagerfeld
Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.
— Portia De Rossi
I bareley knew how to say "my name is," "please" and "thank you," or "I don't speak english," never mind understanding a Newfoundlander talking to me!
— Sergei Ivantchev
I followed the words of the famous Russian proverb: Doveryai, no proveryai (or, in English, 'Trust, but verify').
— Randi Minetor
The English mode of existence in which everybody acts as if everybody else ( with few, or no exceptions ) was either an enemy or a bore.
— John Stuart Mill
The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really.
— Gerard Butler
In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.
— Rabih Alameddine
I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.
— Josh Lanyon
Linguists aim to describe language while teachers prescribe how English or any other language should be properly used.
— Adrian J. Williams
There are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.
— Lanier Ivester
When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.
— Ringo Starr
I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.
— Susanne Bier
A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.
— Gertrude Stein
When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
— Janet McTeer
My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.
— Todd English
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
— Lawrence Welk
You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?
— Christopher Hitchens
Pelapi. It is an old word. There is no single word like it in English. It means 'librarian,' but also 'apprentice,' or perhaps 'student.
— Scott Hawkins
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
— George Orwell
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.
— Hilaire Belloc
My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
— Ian Harding
The landlord was trying to explain that there were a great many English people in his house, all fighting duels or having hysterics.
— Georgette Heyer
There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.
— Chaim Weizmann
Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke
— P. J. O'Rourke
People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House,
— Tom Tancredo
English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
— Rita Mae Brown
English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.
— Jay Rayner
Our word "lord" comes from the Old English hlaford, or "loafward," he who guarded the bread supply - and was expected to share it.
— Ronald Wright
The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
— Harry Browne
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 refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
— Manfred Von Richthofen
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
English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.
— Neville Cardus
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
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
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
— John Ruskin
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
— W. H. Auden
Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.
— Helen Keller
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
ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Ones Turd smells the same be of Servant or Prince (English Translation)
— Ricardo Cdcbsi 83592 Arjona
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.
— Robert Graves
My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.
— Margaret Cho
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 definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
— Diane Wakoski
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
The English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt.
— Joseph O'Connor
Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
— Flea
My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.
— Mahatma Gandhi
He argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.
— Susanna Clarke
I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.
— Pat Conroy
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.
— Timothy Leary
Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English.
— Anna Pavlova
He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.
— Cormac McCarthy