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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 a war the last thing the English know is how to practice fair play. — Adolf Hitler

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers) — Samuel Johnson

William the Conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of English sand. — Salman Rushdie

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

Beyond the first few thousand words of English, many words are expansions of more basic words through the addition of morphemes — Grabe

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

Love is the most important word in the English language
and the most confusing. — Gary Chapman

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

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. — Eric Alterman

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

President Bush called Arnold to congratulate him today, and after he got off the phone, Arnold said, 'I thought my English was bad.' — Jay Leno

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

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

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur — Doug Larson

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

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books. — Per Petterson

The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it. — Alister E. McGrath

But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation. — John Dryden

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story. — Eric Bana

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

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it. — Idris Elba

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

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

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 real future of the Hispanic targeted media and advertising is in English. — David Morse

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

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

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before. — John Edward Williams

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