English Quotes · Page 27

If you're French, you definitely have to respect Tony Parker for what he did.

— Evan Fournier

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

— Joanna Lumley

I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.

— Eiza Gonzalez

I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

— Eva Green

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

— Wilfrid Laurier

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

— Erin McKean

American and French culture are really, really different, but in a way it's funny.

— Patrick Mouratoglou

“Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.”

— Robert Arger

I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was…

— Vinny Guadagnino

In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find…

— Yayoi Kusama

“If we were still English we'd be drinking more and driving on the wrong side of the road - pretty much what…

— Lorrie Moore

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones.…

— Tracey Ullman

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the…

— Pat Conroy

I learned English kind of late. I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a…

— Penelope Cruz

Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks…

— Paul Johnson

“The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for…

— Maurice Dekobra

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to…

— Barry Eisler

That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

— William Shakespeare

The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.

— Kapil Dev

We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.

— Joseph Addison

If there's one thing that chafes French pride, it's seeing the British steal the limelight.

— Marine Le Pen

English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.

— Anonymous

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they…

— Gertrude Stein

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

— Elizabeth George

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

France has long been regarded as the most adept at stealing trade secrets.

— Neil Macdonald

“English is becoming a universal language such as humans have never had before.”

— Minae Mizumura

England is so black and white, so plain, like a burger with nothing on it. No salad, nothing. That's why it's so…

— Skepta

“Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.”

— Mark Twain

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

— Candace Camp

I did an English album called 'Ice' earlier but it was too ahead of its time.

— Anu Malik

The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

— Thomas Carlyle

Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro…

— Elizabeth George

The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.

— Walt Whitman

English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the…

— H. Beam Piper

I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.

— Martin Parr

I think it has to do with the English mentality, we've always been wary of people with talent, we prefer people who…

— Matt Le Tissier