I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais. — Corneille Ewango Copy Share Image
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there. — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
I hear what they're saying. I ask my English tutor, 'What is this word 'tinkerer?'' — Claudio Ranieri Copy Share Image
There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful. — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
“I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.” — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting. — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to… — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my… — Xavier Samuel Copy Share Image
“It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“It is nine o'clock, and London has breakfasted. Some unconsidered tens of thousands have, it is true, already enjoyed with what appetite… — George Augustus Sala Copy Share Image
“Commencez!' cried I, when they had all produced their books. The moon-faced youth (by name of Jules Vanderkelkov, as I afterwards learned)… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
At the age of nine, I simultaneously fell in love with two Dutch sisters because they seemed so beautifully strange, and their… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“Valentine clears his throat. "So. Why can't you just say it?" "Say what?" "You know what." "It's hardly the time or place."… — Richard Rider Copy Share Image
You know, now there is always half of the new Quebecers who are going to the English CEGEP. After that, often they… — Pauline Marois Copy Share Image
