English Quotes · Page 22

I learned English second, as a secondary language.

— Paul Raci

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

— George Mikes

“The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.”

— Martin Amis

Being a France is great from a heritage standpoint.

— Brian France

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

— David Brooks

Excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed.

— Ray Nagin

Samassi Abou don’t speak the English too good.

— Harry Redknapp

Here, whatever is not boring is not English.

— Frederic Chopin

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

— Jack Lynch

French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.

— Leonard Mlodinow

“I beg your pardon; I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man.”

— Santosh Kalwar

If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd…

— Rudyard Kipling

Only thing the French are good at is having affairs and giving up and losing fights.

— Sean Strickland

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more…

— Felicity Jones

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

— Zadie Smith

Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the…

— Matt Smith

I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember.…

— Diego Della Valle

School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled…

— India de Beaufort

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But…

— George Zimmerman

I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but…

— A. S. Byatt

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do…

— Peter Hermann

“Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They…

— Tim Radford

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs…

— Isabella Bird

I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to…

— Romola Garai

I love French and English bulldogs. They're hilarious and adorable.

— Xander Schauffele

Foreigners have souls; the English haven't.

— George Mikes

My feeling is that the English are naturally anti-Semitic.

— Miriam Margolyes

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

— Elton John

“I am more English than the English.- Rudolf de Vitt”

— Kate Williams

England's just very cynical. Like I am. Like we all are.

— Winston Marshall

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

— Benjamin Franklin

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude.

— Kevin Shields

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.

— Alison Goldfrapp

It's good to be around an English manager.

— Jack Wilshere

I was writing in English since my school days in Amritsar.

— Deepti Naval

I have a huge man-crush on Aiden English.

— William Regal

For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.

— Zhang Yimou

Often, Americans think any northern English accent is Australian.

— Ryan Cartwright

I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.

— Orlando Bloom