English Quotes · Page 11

Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.

— Anonymous

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

— Mr. T

In England we are sort of very awkward.

— Tom Felton

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

— Leon Krier

“The limits of my language are the limits of my universe”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

English has too many words. Majid Safdari

— Parham

I'm bilingual, I speak english and photography

— Nigel McKain

The idea of England in decline is very attractive.

— Martin Parr

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

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

— John Walker Lindh

“The french are a moral people--judged, that is, by american country club standards.”

— John Steinbeck

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

“Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.”

— John Patrick Lowrie

“You Englishmen,’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and…

— Derek Raymond

I'm English, and 'Doctor Who' was this thing that I've been watching since I was three.

— Neil Gaiman

I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but…

— David Chang

In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really…

— Ben Schnetzer

Nicki Minaj thanked me on the first mixtape that she put out. She shouted me out, said thank you for allowing her…

— Monie Love

'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored…

— Richard Engel

It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation…

— Geraldine Brooks

The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found…

— Adhir Kalyan

I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might…

— Kailash Kher

Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less…

— D. H. Lawrence

It's easier for me to act in Spanish, but as soon as I get the lines in English and I know them…

— Ana de la Reguera

“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit…

— Charles Dickens

“There is nothing intrinsic in the English language that made it attain such prominence. It is far from easy to learn. (A…

— Minae Mizumura

I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard.…

— Fernando Torres

“What is Freelancing? Freelancing is a work arrangement where individuals offer their services to clients on a project basis, often remotely and…

— Bhairab IT Zone

“Takes more than beer in your blood to take the English out of you.”

— Nancy Holderv

“We're in America; why do I have to "Press 1" for English?”

— Allan Hall

“Like a Frenchman, far from home, catching a whiff of Gauloise.”

— Stephen Fry

Bottom line: this is the United States. And we speak English here.

— Trish Regan

Before. b-e-f-o-r-e, not B4. We speak English. Not bingo.

— Anonymous

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

— James D. Watson

English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

— Anonymous

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

— Jacques Barzun