English Quotes

I've always felt very English.

— David Hockney

Proud to be an english student :D

— Suman Rai

English is not my language.

— Sebastian Lelio

I barely speak English.

— Eric Ripert

I love English and literature.

— Mickie James

English is not my first language.

— Anonymous

I'm sorry, I don't speak English.

— Francesco Totti

“settled by the French,” he”

— Janis Owens

Math was my favorite subject, and English was my worst.

— Rob Gronkowski

“What do they know of England who only England know?”

— Rudyard Kipling Alice Kipling his mother

I've never really had the urge to make an English album.

— Wang Leehom

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

— Julie Burchill

We would love to perform in Japan in Japanese, in America in English.

— Jennie

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

— Alan Rickman

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

— Heinz Guderian

Tunisia is always ready to turn the page.

— Habib Bourguiba

I think France should be free, independent, and be the cultural heart of the world because those play a balance in the…

— Marine Le Pen

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

— George Bernard Shaw

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other…

— Vikram Seth

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.

— Carolina Herrera

There is no denying that the English league is perfect for me, but there are nice clubs elsewhere, too.

— Romelu Lukaku

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

— Horace Walpole

With Singaporeans, you speak English, you're well-educated, the doors open everywhere.

— Lee Hsien Loong

I'm completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.

— Jemima West

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do…

— Ben Whishaw

My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of…

— Win Butler

Speaking and writing English perfectly should not be a privilege. To those who try to politicize this matter, I tell them now,…

— Luis Fortuno

WI played a young Helena Bonham Carter in a BBC film called 'A Dark Adapted Eye,' and I thought she was a…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute…

— Norman Douglas

There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you…

— Anthony Horowitz

There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to…

— George Berkeley

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't…

— Pearl S. Buck

It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what…

— John McWhorter

Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been…

— Wendy Davis

When I went to high school, I wanted to be a designer of airplanes. But flunking out of the science high school…

— Avi

“The French have such an attractive civilization, dedicated to calm pleasures and general tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so…

— Edmund White

“We lawyers do not write plain English. We use eight words to say what could be said in two. We use arcane…

— Richard C. Wydick

“Being too American, or American at all, is pretty much the worst thing a Brit can be. “American” is synonymous with pushiness,…

— Eric Weiner

My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume…

— Katherine Dunn

“The vocabulary of flattery and insult is continually enlarged at the expense of the vocabulary of definition. As old horses go to…

— CS Lewis