I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that. — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff. — Abigail Breslin Copy Share Image
I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way. — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone. — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done. — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job,… — Emmanuelle Seigner Copy Share Image
Camila Cabello did an amazing job with 'Havana.' It's Spanish, but it's English. — Lele Pons Copy Share Image
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people. — Peter Oliver Copy Share Image
There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“She would put her “naïve American optimism” toward making herself indispensable to him, and she’d win him. Because naïve American optimism beat… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
My favorite subject was English, and I wanted to study English abroad when I was young, when I was a kid, but… — Doona Bae Copy Share Image
America is the land of the hustler: it's bigger, bolder, flasher, more in your face, whereas England's more about attention to detail… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
You know why the French hate us so much? Thay gave us the croissant. And you know what we did with it?… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
“But then we did not think ever of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. We thought we were superior people… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Father Hobbe, his cassock skirts hitched up to his waist, was fighting with a quarterstaff, ramming the pole into French faces. ‘In… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
The one author who has influenced my writing the most is the English writer John Fowles, who wrote 'The French Lieutenant's Woman,'… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It… — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
