English Quotes · Page 26

The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.

— Terry Pratchett

“Love is simple, if you allow it to be simple." Julian to Hannah, Take A Chance”

— Alison Wong

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian…

— Cote de Pablo

The terrorists haven't won, and we should tell them in plain English, 'No, there will never be a mosque at Ground Zero.'

— Renee Ellmers

The English treatment of the Irish was appalling. It was absolutely appalling.

— Perdita Weeks

All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated…

— W. C. Fields

It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.

— Henry Sweet

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering,…

— Robin Marantz Henig

Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to…

— Michael Apted

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they…

— Nicholas Stoller

It's funny, I started by making fake American movies, 'The Transporter' and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything…

— Louis Leterrier

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to…

— David McCullough

My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four…

— Audrey Meadows

“The French doctor - the French, they are a very logical race and make good doctors - says: "M'sieu, they have all…

— Cornell Woolrich

“Why this book? In today’s globalized world, it seems we forget things that happened only a decade ago. Thus, we repeat the…

— Thomas Jerome Baker

In America, people will look past a criminal record. In England, they try and shut you up.

— Giggs

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

— Umberto Eco

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is…

— Jules Verne

There wasn't a single good character in 'Titanic' who was English and this is typical.

— David Warner

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

— George Bernard Shaw

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

— Isabel Allende

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

— William Shakespeare

those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

— Marthe Bibesco

I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised…

— Claire Tomalin

“And he said... ...crossing your' 't' isn't as important as crossing your legs.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan

“Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don’t speak English?”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

— Anthony Burgess

Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.

— Omar Sy

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so…

— Martin Freeman

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

— Tom Stoppard

The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.

— John Hurt

“Poor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like my toenails.”

— David Mitchell

We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.

— Simon Cowell

The fun is in figuring out why the French are susceptible to such tripe.

— Bill O'Brien

“They're from France, Ruby said, Vogue magazine. They only speak French except for fuck you.”

— Tom Spanbauer

England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.

— Natalia Ginzburg

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.

— John Clayton

“If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".”

— Anonymous