English Quotes · Page 22

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

— Heinz Guderian

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

— Alan Rickman

We would love to perform in Japan in Japanese, in America in English.

— Jennie

The English as a race are not worth saving!

— Jack Straw

British people do not like being bossed around.

— John Redwood

“أَعيشُ عَلى فُتاتِ أَحْلامٍ I live on remnants of dreams”

— Khaled Ibrahim

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

— Charles de Gaulle

In my time also when you do good, Frenchmen don't like it.

— Eddy Merckx

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

— Jilly Cooper

“Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.”

— Mark Dery

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian…

— Cote de Pablo

The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.

— Terry Pratchett

“Love is simple, if you allow it to be simple." Julian to Hannah, Take A Chance”

— Alison Wong

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

— Alain Prost

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

— Randall Jarrell

I've always appreciated English football and the Premier League, I've always liked it.

— Pavel Nedved

I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You…

— James Callis

“But France's powerful armies, and a very large number of fortresses, ensure that the French Sovereign will possess the throne forever, and…

— Frederick the Great

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than…

— Francois Rabelais

“The difference between the English and the rest of mankind is that the English have long known the truth about themselves —…

— Romain Gary

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead…

— Lauren Willig

There is a certain ancient civility about tailors that is welcome - especially in modern London, which is now very much an…

— Graydon Carter

Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about…

— Bill Bryson

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art…

— Emmy Rossum

Three English bulldogs count for one kid.

— Troy Polamalu

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I learned how to speak English watching television.

— Azita Ghanizada

It's important on any English wicket to leave well.

— AB de Villiers

I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that.

— Lou Doillon

Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.

— George W. Bush

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

— Goldwin Smith

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

— George Bernard Shaw

There is a certain dignity to being French.

— Brigitte Bardot

“know english,twinkle as a star of the world.”

— Vidhesh Vijay

In England, we're arrogant to everything else.

— Bradley Wright-Phillips

In 1628 came the first English attack on Canada.

— Harry Johnston

“There is also a dog, but he does not understand English,”

— Isabella L. Bird

... France is the genius among nations.

— Gertrude Atherton

The fight against bad English is not frivolous.

— George Orwell

The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

— Stendhal