Why is English so widespread today, and not Danish?

“The idea of a sandwich as a snack goes back to Roman times. Scandinavians perfected the technique with the Danish open-faced sandwich, or smorroebrod,…

— DeeDee Stovel

Under the constitution, as the Danish queen I am bound to the Lutheran faith, but that does not exclude people of other faiths.

— Margrethe II of Denmark

I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

— Gillian Flynn

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a…

— Robert Graves

It wasn't until a year later, when a young woman with Danish pastries on either side of her head knelt down in front of…

— Simon Pegg

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

— Virginia Madsen

I've talked a lot about the discipline and high, high skills of the British actors as seen from my Danish point of view. But…

— Lone Scherfig

I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish; I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly…

— Susanne Bier

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

— Susanne Bier

With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity…

— Jay Inslee

I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not…

— Viggo Mortensen

If anything, I've thought of myself as Scandinavian. Particularly, Danish. We spoke English at home.

— Prince Philip

In 2007 and 2008, the first two Danish ships were hijacked. I started to research it. I've had the idea of writing in this…

— Tobias Lindholm

Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

— Rene Redzepi

This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.

— John Helm