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Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good. — Carl Andre

I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either. — Jon Bon Jovi

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

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one. — Marlon Brando

I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house. — Lev Grossman

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara. — Robert Anton Wilson

Americans were most likely good people ... the only thing wrong with them, David thought, was that they spoke English very badly. — Anne Holm

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. — Alan Perlis

A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches. — Jonathan Sacks

Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America. — Kelly Osbourne

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class. — Seth Rogen

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother. — George Bernard Shaw

I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost." — Charles Spurgeon

But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. — Marisha Pessl

When it is possible that people don't understand my English, I take my guitar and speak with my music! — Celedonio Romero

I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer. — Steve Rushin

I'm English and, as such, I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. — Bill Bailey

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

It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good. — Thomas B. Macaulay

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence? — George Carlin

While traveling in this highly idiosyncratic country, it became clear to me that the Scots did not like the English. — Joe Queenan

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word. — Portia De Rossi

The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland. — Larry Trask

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys. — Salvador De Madariaga

Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay. — Tony Blair

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general. — George Bernard Shaw

I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English. — William Butler Yeats

We have to be concerned about the gun killing that people who are Americans, who are Irish, and who are English, who are all around the country. — Dalia Mogahed

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand. — E.L. Doctorow

The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. — Louis XVIII Of France

He was in that state of highly respectful sulkiness which is peculiar to English servants. — Wilkie Collins

If that doesn't seem dominant enough, consider the fact that the word "google" is now an official entry in the Oxford English Dictionary - as a verb. — Peter Thiel

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there — Stephen Fry

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know. — Talib Kweli

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity. — Quentin Crisp

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English. — Sandra Cisneros

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.' — Liz Williams

So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain. — Michael Drayton

That night Ana Iris and I go to a movie. We cannot understand the English but we both like the new theater's clean rugs. — Junot Diaz

I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England. — Olivia Hussey

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. — Walter Scott

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men. — Germaine Greer

I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress. — Hani Furstenberg

Fine's a funny word, don't you think? I don't think there's another like it in the English language that says so much while actually saying so little. — Emma Chase

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. — George Galloway

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head. — Zoe Wanamaker

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym. — Stephen King

It is accepted science that God himself gave the French the gift of their cuisine, and while he was downstairs, cursed the English with theirs. — Christopher Moore

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. — Candace Camp

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first. — Ali Liebegott

God! The sexiest three words in the English language, 'you were right'. What woman doesn't love to hear that? — Kristan Higgins

English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England! — Dan Castellaneta

(oh, he loves her; just as the English loved India and Africa and Ireland; it is the love that is the problem, people treat their lovers badly) — Zadie Smith

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English. — Geoffrey Rush

Oh, sweet Jesus, English, I'm in love with you! Isn't that reason enough to marry me and put me out of my misery? - Rafael pg 451 — Shirlee Busbee

You English have a saying which is close to my heart, for its spirit is that which rules our boyars: Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. — Bram Stoker

Most English people are horrified that I use soap, but I like it - it works for my skin. I try different soaps all the time, but I use very mild ones. — Marie Helvin

At the moment, I'm focusing on these kind of "small" films - maybe after that, I will make bigger films in English. — Malgorzata Szumowska

I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me. — Ariel Dorfman

I know that asshole you were with in college
"
"Can we leave that asshole out of it?"
Please, gentlemen, one asshole at a time. — Josh Lanyon

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

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two. — David Bezmozgis

I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it. — Juan Manuel Fangio

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English. — Mahatma Gandhi

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. — Jimmy Breslin

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

Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs. — Kola Boof

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. — Aravind Adiga

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

A lot of people don't know enough about me. When I meet people who freak out about Game of Thrones, they don't even know that I can speak English. — Jason Momoa

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

Shakespeare was so ahead of his time that people still don't talk that way. — Rod Longuestte

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out. — Joe Strummer

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. — Mahatma Gandhi

She'd majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that. — Rainbow Rowell

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

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

A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH. — Elizabeth Wein

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that. — Kurt Vonnegut

English. That was where I met him. — Andrew Koh

Dag insists that all dogs secretly speak the English language and subscribe to the morals and beliefs of the Unitarian church ... — Douglas Coupland

I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language. — Cesar Millan

Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer. — Lauren Myracle

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. — William Blackstone

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

For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I want to keep an English heart to the team. I believe in that. Michael Owen is that. Never think Michael is afraid of anything. — Gerard Houllier

I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever. — Paul Bowles

English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve. — Fred Allen

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 language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce. — Mary Norris

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual. — Kenneth Baker

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

He believed that the earth is flat, that the English are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and that the United States is a democracy. — Sinclair Lewis

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

How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog! — Aubrey Beardsley