The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
School is pointless. English: We speak it. History: They're dead. Math: We have calculators. Spanish: We have Dora. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England! — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and… — Marsha Thomason Copy Share Image
If we were to put out a song in English, we would have to put in lots and lots of effort. — Jennie Copy Share Image
Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was easy to edit… — Robert Giroux Copy Share Image
I'd love to be a part of 'Star Wars.' I'd be a Sith, of course - I'm English! We've got the voice,… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a… — Elliot Cowan Copy Share Image
In England, gossiping is not as commonplace or even celebrated as much as it is in Latino culture. But it is not… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is… — Sung Kang Copy Share Image
“I'm a writer to the bone. I love this language you and I read, write and speak. It's called English. And I'm… — Ann Medlock Copy Share Image
My mother always spoke to me in English, so it's technically my maternal language, and it became a kind of private language… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started… — Anchee Min Copy Share Image
“...you know as well as I do that, individually, the English are very estimable and frequently generous, but that, once banded together… — Maurice Dekobra Copy Share Image
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, goldurn,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
My dad is an ob-gyn - he's retired now - and he wanted to come to the States to make a better… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
“It was English, and the wych-elm that she saw from the window was an English tree. No report had prepared her for… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Commencez!' cried I, when they had all produced their books. The moon-faced youth (by name of Jules Vanderkelkov, as I afterwards learned)… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“It is nine o'clock, and London has breakfasted. Some unconsidered tens of thousands have, it is true, already enjoyed with what appetite… — George Augustus Sala Copy Share Image
I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
