“State: 'It's a pleasure to be here' and offer a cup of coffee.” — Business English Magazine Poznań Copy Share Image
I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated. — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Beckham, Lampard, Gerrard, all the top English players are who I strive to be like. — James Ward-Prowse Copy Share Image
Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America. — Kelly Osbourne Copy Share Image
There have been a bunch of Indian films in English that found an audience. — Arfi Lamba Copy Share Image
I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
“The English will never be forgiven for the talent for destruction they have always displayed when they get off their own island.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The French are connoisseurs of sadness, they know all kinds. This is why they have bidets.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“LOSER! You English lose...I suppose he thought it was the most grievous insult he could hurl. But such a curse doesn't really… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“She's no-one special. England's full of wounded people. Quietly choking. Shrieking softly so the neighbours won't hear. You must have seen them.… — Helen Zahavi Copy Share Image
You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
“The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“It was English, and the wych-elm that she saw from the window was an English tree. No report had prepared her for… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
My dad is an ob-gyn - he's retired now - and he wanted to come to the States to make a better… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, goldurn,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“English is not spare. But it is beautiful. It cannot be called truthful because its subtleties are infinite. It is the language… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
