“There’s not much to give away. I’m really a very dull person.” “That’s very self-deprecating.” “It’s a British trait. Part of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European… — Michiel Huisman Copy Share Image
Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary… — Kiki Dee Copy Share Image
Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
“The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman is this: The one thinks everything right that is French, while… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs… — Will Self Copy Share Image
When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference.… — Gong Li Copy Share Image
The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
“The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of… — Lawrence Booth Copy Share Image
When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
When you get into the third or fourth generation of Latino immigrants to the United States, you see the kids speaking more… — Thalia Copy Share Image
“Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
London has this culture of the theatre that is so big, it was a like a dream - but I never had… — Elena Roger Copy Share Image
One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority… — Pierre Daninos Copy Share Image
“Pot itself has nothing to do with pots and pans, but comes from the Mexican-Spanish word potiguaya, which means marijuana leaves. And… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak… — Ksenia Solo Copy Share Image
Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go… — Andy Taylor Copy Share Image
The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own… — Robert Morley Copy Share Image
I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room… — Brian O'Driscoll Copy Share Image
My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting.… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent… — Dennis Bergkamp Copy Share Image
“Of village: it is not called so because its inhabitants are of higher age on average; in fact, there is no connection… — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
I cannot stand it when the French are asked in all circumstances to make sacrifices before the state cuts back on its… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t story (good or bad) that pulled me in; it was English itself, the way it felt in my braces-caged mouth… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food… — Ben Elliot Copy Share Image
