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Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating. — Dizzy Dean

When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because my roots are very American. — Brandon Flowers

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

There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Fenimore Cooper could write English, but they are all dead now. — Mark Twain

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

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell. — Helen Reddy

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago. — Jack Lynch

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

I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white. — G. Willow Wilson

Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it. — Chris Martin

Being drunk is the only situation when English people completely avoid health and safety rules. — Angela Kiss

The only people who should play for England are English people — Jack Wilshere

The English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them. — M. E. W. Sherwood

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded. — Henry Watson Fowler

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English
but are great in remembering signs — Karl Lagerfeld

Language is the key to the heart of people. — Ahmed Deedat

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs. — George Bernard Shaw

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world! — Terry Gilliam

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

England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English. — Dave Barry

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew. — John McWhorter

English fondness for France is normally a sort of neutron love: take away the people and leave the buildings standing. — Anthony Lane

The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth. — David E. Goldberg

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody. — Maya Angelou

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

It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language. — Billy Collins

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English. — Robertson Davies

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. — Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don't speak English? — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them? — Dean Koontz

The landlord was trying to explain that there were a great many English people in his house, all fighting duels or having hysterics. — Georgette Heyer

more students of English in China than there are people in the United States. — Bill Bryson

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

I said I was an English major, that I wanted to write someday, that I read the way other people ate chocolate. — Francesca Lia Block

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think! — Voltaire

The English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human — Charles Dickens

People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House, — Tom Tancredo

When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy. — Finley Peter Dunne

I thought of walks in the English countryside, where people start shouting at you as soon as you stray from the footpath. — George Monbiot

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.

The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them. — Thomas Carlyle

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. — George Bernard Shaw

I am the granddaughter of an English woman. I love England and her people and, regardless of politics, consider you to be family ... and always will. — Nicola Sturgeon

The English are the people of consummate cant. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible. — Nikki Sixx

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'. — Jackie Chan

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language. — Margaret Cho

American audiences are affected by what the English people think. — Chita Rivera

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music. — Pat Boone

If we were still English we'd be drinking more and driving on the wrong side of the road - pretty much what people do on the Fourth of July anyway. — Lorrie Moore

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. — Douglas Coupland

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English. — Jane Kaczmarek

(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

The people don't take baths and they don't speak English. No golf courses, no room service. Who needs it? — Jim McMahon

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. — Bill Gates

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it. — Mahatma Gandhi

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 love the English people - if you don't want to speak, you don't speak. And I'm quite like that sometimes. — Sophie Cookson

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. — Carl Sandburg

Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak. — Maureen Johnson

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean. — Leon Krier

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

She wasn't some little princess from the suburbs who just graduated college with a humanities degree, she knew what people were really like. — David Wong

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian. — Luke Ford

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English. — Richard Flanagan

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

The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world — Stendhal

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object. — Samuel Smiles

There are those lunatic people who always prophesy the end of the world. I belong to them. — Angela Kiss

Did you ask people to crime scenes on dates? — Maureen Johnson

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

I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel. — Gwen Moore

Dickens belongs to the English people. — Claire Tomalin

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers! — Dree Hemingway

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer. — J.K. Rowling

Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles. — George Mikes

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. — Bill Bryson

Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it. — Lillian Hellman

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

Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people. — Virginia Woolf

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English. — Alan Siegel

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy. — Bjork

The British and Americans are two people separated by a common language. — George Bernard Shaw

For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter. — Duff Cooper

Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of — Charles Dickens

I really wanted to speak English because I started touring the world, and I wanted to communicate with people directly. — Miyavi

Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people — Jan Morris

Theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in — Charles Dickens

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

I spoke in English because the language of the Frisian people is so close to our own. — Bernard Cornwell

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

They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually were. — E. M. Forster