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The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity. — Benjamin Franklin

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

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

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you. — Jason Derulo

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and ... ants. I can understand ants. — A.S. Byatt

My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu. — Frank Zappa

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

For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum — Thomas Jefferson

What's chumming?" I asked, wondering if it was some old English nautical term for making friends. — Raleigh Blake

Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it. — Chris Martin

Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life. — Meg Rosoff

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

It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars. — Todd English

In my mind's eye — William Shakespeare

My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry. — Joseph Bruchac

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood

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

A German attack on Russia's ally France would, in reality, be defensive - but the English talked as if Germany was trying to dominate Europe. — Ken Follett

I'd love to be a part of 'Star Wars.' I'd be a Sith, of course - I'm English! We've got the voice, and it's perfect for the bad guys. — Jamie Campbell Bower

desperately needed to practice her German, because she couldn't sing Schubert's songs in English for — Sarah Lark

Such names as German Mastiff, German Boarhound, English Dogge, Ulmer Dogge and Deutsche Dogge were common in countries around the world. — S. William Haas

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue. — Harold Bloom

I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there. — Damon Albarn

I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy. — Diego Maradona

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness. — Kenneth Tynan

I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had. — Nell Zink

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language. — Jonathan Ames

English, our common language, binds our diverse people. — S.I. Hayakawa

I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it. — Barbara Pym

There's just something about being English. When you travel the world you feel more grateful. — Dizzee Rascal

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

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp. — Roy Blount Jr.

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. — Jack Prelutsky

It's fascinating. You know all these words, and they're all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don't make any sense. — Cassandra Clare

I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film. — Patricia Riggen

You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about. — Elaine Dundy

Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste. — Keshub Chandra Sen

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale. — Anil Kapoor

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American. — Irwin Shaw

For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a wallet. — Robert Orben

Where's our teacher?"
"Probably getting it on with the English teacher."
- Alex Gold and Mike Wilson — R.J. Morse, R.J. Brookes

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. — E.B. White

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me. — Prince Royce

My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous. — Robert Sean Leonard

I get a lot more abuse in England. That's just a general English attitude. I did the same thing to famous people. It's just your instinct. — Robert Pattinson

Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY. — Billy Collins

Ah, yes, well that's the problem with the English language, isn't it? All the words mean different things. — Alex Shvartsman

Has the casual use of profanity in English reached a high tide? That's a rhetorical question, but I'm going to answer it anyway: Fuck yeah. — Mary Norris

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. — Rachel Weisz

I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English. — Patricia Riggen

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved. — Alan Pardew

The English summer is never far away; it's just above the clouds. — Benny Bellamacina

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics. — Flea

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom ... — Alexander McCall Smith

The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so ... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice. — Shunryu Suzuki

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me. — Chow Yun-Fat

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

I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic. — Joel Kinnaman

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

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

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

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

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich. — Tom Hooper

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

John Mitchel's famous declaration that God sent the blight but the English created the Famine. — Tim Pat Coogan

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

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

Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays. — Terry Teachout

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community. — Carolina Herrera

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

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

I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt

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

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

My master's degree was in English literature. — Sylvia Browne

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

My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert. — Arizona Muse

Gulliver's Travels sardonically proposed that Irish babies be fattened for English tables; — Robert A. Heinlein

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general. — Christopher Moore

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

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

I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere. — David Bowie

Smile, it's contagious — Rose English

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

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman. — Jacki Weaver

England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen. — Len Deighton

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 see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry. — Allegra Huston

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

That's why even the simplest, most basic Japanese sentence cannot be translated into English! — Tae Kim

My head whips towards the sound of Breanna's sweet voice. At the corner, she waves to our English teacher [Ms Whitlock] then starts to our classroom. — Katie McGarry

For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done. — Diana Nyad

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

With one perfect kiss on one perfect English summer afternoon, we understand the meaning of all the colors of every rainbow, forevermore. — Hunter S. Jones

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