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I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.
— Anthony Horowitz
I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.
— John P. Wheeler III
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
I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.
— Joyce Johnson
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
— Stephen Ambrose
Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.
— Mary Quant
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
— John Hume
You know what English is? The result of the efforts of Norman men-at-arms to make dates with Saxon barmaids.
— H. Beam Piper
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers) — Samuel Johnson
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'm just the last English twit, really.
— Colin Firth
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
Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language detected.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
— Pankaj Mishra
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.
— Bernard Pivot
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
— Bill Bryson
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 believe librarians, like English teachers, sit at the right hand of God.
— William Deresiewicz
The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really.
— Gerard Butler
Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.
— Susanna Clarke
I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.
— Erma Bombeck
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
An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.
— Bernie Glassman
The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
— H.P. Lovecraft
One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was the only book which allowed him to forget politics.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
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 was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
— William Shakespeare
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
I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.
— Jon English
He was the least scary adult present, besides being English and therefore fascinating.
— Jeanne Birdsall
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
— Stephen Fry
John Mitchel's famous declaration that God sent the blight but the English created the Famine.
— Tim Pat Coogan
What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.
— William Shakespeare
All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.
— Tommy Lasorda
The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!
— Dree Hemingway
AB'ACOT, noun The cap of State, formerly used by English Kings, wrought into the figure of two crowns.
— Noah Webster
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
Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language
— Clotye Murdock Larsson
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
— Wallace Stevens
Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.
— Tom Hooper
They immediately spent a moment in bemused silence in honor of the perilous little paradox that was the English female
— Julie Anne Long
I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line.
— Jeffrey Steingarten
The English winter is long, cold and wet, just like the English summer
— Benny Bellamacina
Do not follow your present course. It is a dead end. The dead end of the perfect English gentleman.
— Guy Vanderhaeghe
Dickens belongs to the English people.
— Claire Tomalin
I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do.
— Jeanette Winterson
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The English word "coral" also comes from Greek, meaning "what becomes hard in the hand," "the maiden or nymph of the sea," or "the heart of the sea.
— Eric H. Borneman
Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.
— Carolina Herrera
... gloom never forsakes the English...
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.
— Gerald Vizenor
The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.
— Alister E. McGrath
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
— James Otis
Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats
— Honore De Balzac
A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH.
— Elizabeth Wein
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
— Al-Waleed Bin Talal
-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?I said nothing.
-Deny it,damn you! — Michael Ondaatje
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
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
— Carrie Fisher
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
— J.M.G. Le Clezio
The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn.
— J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.
No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words.
— Philip Pullman
It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.
— George G. Williams
The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.
— James Connolly
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
In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.
— Bertrand Barere
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class
— Francine Prose
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
— Bill Condon
Those twin beliefs give rise not to a meek acquiescence to injustice in the world but to a robust determination to oppose it. English
— N. T. Wright
He quite liked the English. They tended to say sorry a lot, which was quite understandable given their heritage and the crimes of their ancestors.
— Terry Pratchett
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
— Charles Dickens
ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I am more English than the English.- Rudolf de Vitt
— Kate Williams
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
— Anthony Trollope
Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.
— Eddie Vedder
Ones Turd smells the same be of Servant or Prince (English Translation)
— Ricardo Cdcbsi 83592 Arjona
We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
— Noel Gallagher
The word hope first appeared in English about a thousand years ago, denoting some combination of confidence and desire. But
— Paul Kalanithi
English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
— Charles Lamb
