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When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because my roots are very American.
— Brandon Flowers
English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.
— Deborah Harkness
There is a core simplicity to the English language and its American variant, but it's a slippery core.
— Stephen King
I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.
— Robert Englund
The Canadian dialect of English ... seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
— Lister Sinclair
The English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.
— M. E. W. Sherwood
American naturalist William Morton Wheeler made the English term popular as the study of "habits and instincts."11
— Frans De Waal
American politicians do anything for money ... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
— Stephen Leacock
In general, American slang is much better than English slang. The entire world picks up American slang.
— Jesse Sheidlower
The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.
— Salvador De Madariaga
The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
— William Carlos Williams
MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
— Ambrose Bierce
If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
— John Keegan
One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.
— James Otis
I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
— Martin Cruz Smith
It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.
— Virginia Gildersleeve
When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
— Finley Peter Dunne
The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
— Robert Trout
The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.
— Gerald Vizenor
I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.
— Michael Caine
American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.
— Robert Burchfield
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.
— Rebecca West
Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.
— Alan Siegel
These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.
— Henry Ford
Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.
— Kurt Vonnegut
In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.
— Sun Myung Moon
He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.
— Max Eastman
I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English.
— Kate Del Castillo
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
I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
— Wally Schirra