I enjoyed English football from day one when I was with Southampton. — Toby Alderweireld Copy Share Image
When I first came to this country, I didn't know how to speak English. — Wilmer Valderrama Copy Share Image
The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.” — John Patrick Lowrie Copy Share Image
“You Englishmen,’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and… — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
I'm English, and 'Doctor Who' was this thing that I've been watching since I was three. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't have to speak English to have sophisticated political opinions. — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease. — Paula Abdul Copy Share Image
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world;… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the… — Om Puri Copy Share Image
“Even the English, who understand it, are not exactly riotously amused by the understatement. At best, a well-timed, well-turned understatement only raises… — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was… — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
“...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“संकट मोचन हनुमानाष्टक मत्तगयन्द छन्द बाल समय रबि भक्षि लियो तब तीनहुँ लोक भयो अँधियारो। ताहि सों त्रास भयो जग को यह… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
If you would have asked me what I thought of America before I came over here I would have used the word… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
I remember, the first time I came to the United States in 1996, I didn't speak a word of English at the… — Juanes Copy Share Image
“ Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly . It only requires a little pains, a… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
