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Do not the figures make it clear that not the English, but the Indians, have enslaved themselves?' One — Leo Tolstoy

Whoever invented English
should have learned
to spell. — Thanhha Lai

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college. — Joseph Sobran

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart. — Anthony Hopkins

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth. — Anton Walbrook

As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity. — Richard Lugar

Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing. — Matthew Arnold

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history. — Nathaniel Philbrick

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 am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare. — Oscar Wilde

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in. — William Monahan

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds. — Eva Mendes

We have not yet begun to fight!" as said by my relative aboard the Bon Homme Richard when the English asked them to surrender as it was about to sink. — Richard Dale

You've got something that I don't have. Innocence. Ur eyes express it, & I can read everything in them". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion — Olga Goa

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. — Alexander Woollcott

We're in America; why do I have to "Press 1" for English? — Allan Hall

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

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this? — David Ricardo

People sometimes have to correct my English. I knew I had a problem when Arnold Schwarzenegger started doing it. — George W. Bush

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

I should have" is one of the most tragic phrases in the English language. Live while you can. — Michael A. McLellan

All day
I practice
squeezing hisses
through my teeth.

Whoever invented
English
must have loved
snakes. — Thanhha Lai

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do. — William Golding

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid. — Pat Conroy

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words. — Bernard Pivot

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

We English have sex on the brain. Not the best place for it, actually. — Laurence Harvey

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite. — Baron De Montesquieu

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

Enemies! People these days don't have enemies! Not English people! — Agatha Christie

I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on — Lauren Graham

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. — William Golding

Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person living in America. — Jaime Murray

I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi. — Anushka Sharma

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

Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies. — Clive Owen

What English speakers call "computer science" Europeans have known as informatique, informatica, and Informatik — James Gleick

My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English. — Isabel Allende

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English. — Jasper Fforde

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. — Oscar Wilde

The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought. — Harper Lee

I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one. — Viggo Mortensen

If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language. — Raj Thackeray

I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it. — Julian Barnes

I want to have roles in English. — Paz Vega

The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever. — Guy De Maupassant

I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time. — Patrice Evra

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

I don't know a lot about the Scots, but I'm aware they have beaten some of the English counties in the NCL and have gone close in other matches, — Justin Langer

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters. — Robert Englund

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. — George Bernard Shaw

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 have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation. — Pharrell Williams

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like. — Olivier Martinez

I would have thought you'd import an English staff?"
"Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors. — Dan Brown

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island. — Oliver Kahn

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it. — P.D. James

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 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

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

Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. — Mark Forsyth

joined one institute in Patel Nagar to accomplish this goal; my English Teacher was strict, but she did not have much knowledge. — Yogesh Saini

If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England. — Lewis Gordon

I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain. — Charlie Cox

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common. — Stephen Fry

Teaching English literature would have seemed to us like teaching a hungry man the way to his mouth when he had a feast before him. Almost — Albert Jay Nock

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading. — Kate DiCamillo

If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job. — Brian Clough

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart. — Jon English

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common. — William Shakespeare

I don't speak English, so I'll just have to win the trust and confidence of the fans with my performance on the field. — Masahiro Tanaka

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service. — Erma Bombeck

I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit. — Randy Lerner

How the mighty have fallen (2 Sam 1.19) — Bible English New International Version

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength. — Bikram Choudhury

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

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

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

English is now ours. We have colonized it, too. — Gemino Abad

Equestrian, by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians. — Lewis Black

In English, for example, there have been over one hundred versions of the New Testament in the past century. — Thomas Holland

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since! — Bertrand Russell

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing. — Leonardo DiCaprio

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite. — Baron De Montesquieu

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

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. — Barbra Streisand

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language. — Pat Conroy

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it. — Malcolm Muggeridge

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness. — Edmund Wilson

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up. — Tony Dungy

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write. — Vikas Swarup

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. — James Connolly

I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly. — James Carr

Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature. — Oscar Wilde

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. — Victor Hugo

I'd love to have been in things like 'The Jewel in the Crown,' but of course they're terribly old English. I can do that. But I'm not that. — Julia McKenzie

English is becoming a universal language such as humans have never had before. — Minae Mizumura