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And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?
— Jandy Nelson
The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
— Anthony Hopkins
Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The English will never be forgiven for the talent for destruction they have always displayed when they get off their own island.
— Hilary Mantel
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
— Natalie Massenet
So I went to bed, full, happy, and caring nothing for all the hurt of all the englished Welshmen that ever festered upon a proud land
— Richard Llewellyn
I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.
— Paul Dano
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
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
— Alexander Woollcott
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
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
Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player!
— Jack Wilshere
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
English should have a word for that feeling you get when you first wake up in a strange room and have no freaking idea where you are.
Hotezzlement? — David Wong
Hotezzlement? — David Wong
The smell of perfume left behind. There's not a word for that in English, but Colin knew the French word: sillage.
— John Green
American politicians do anything for money ... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
— Stephen Leacock
Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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
The more you know about English, the less you're likely to think there are unbreakable "rules" for a lot of things.
— Bill Walsh
We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie.
— Kami Garcia
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
I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
— Christian Lacroix
desperately needed to practice her German, because she couldn't sing Schubert's songs in English for
— Sarah Lark
Three English bulldogs count for one kid.
— Troy Polamalu
Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.
— Susanna Clarke
Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.
— Jessica Livingston
My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.
— Mahatma Gandhi
They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
— Edmund Wilson
In English, for example, there have been over one hundred versions of the New Testament in the past century.
— Thomas Holland
Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.
— Maureen Johnson
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
— Anton Chekhov
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
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
— Jennifer Weiner
I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!
— Lydia Davis
The chief characteristic of English grammar is the way words are arranged within sentences, and the technical term for this process is syntax. It
— David Crystal
Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word
— Frank Bough
I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.
— Prince Royce
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
Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.
— Virginia Woolf
What is the English for 'Refreshing towelette'?
— Mary Wakefield
For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
— Thomas Dunn English
For those learning English as a second language, there is little to do but roll the eyes, tear at the hair, and grimly memorize each one.
— Anne Stilman
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
It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.
— Jodi Picoult
I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.
— Colin Quinn
The English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt.
— Joseph O'Connor
Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?
— Henry David Thoreau
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
Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.
— Robert Johnson
English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.
— John McWhorter
The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
— H.P. Lovecraft
What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.
— William Shakespeare
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
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
— Lynn Abbey
I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
— Mark Takano
Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.
— Garrison Keillor
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain.
— John Lennon
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
— Bat For Lashes
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
— Stephen Fry
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
— Joan Of Arc
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
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
— Charles Dickens
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
I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.
— John Krasinski
English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
— Vaclav Havel
That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Gulliver's Travels sardonically proposed that Irish babies be fattened for English tables;
— Robert A. Heinlein
Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English.
— Anna Pavlova
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
— Jack Prelutsky
For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
— Radha Mitchell
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
I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing
turn your toes out when you walk
And remember who you are! — Lewis Carroll
turn your toes out when you walk
And remember who you are! — 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
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
For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.
— Diana Nyad