The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English. — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It must be something extraordinary to be able to say to yourself that the happiness of every French person is in your… — Kylian Mbappe Copy Share Image
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't. — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
People always said that I hated punk, and that really wasn't true. It was glossed over for many years that I was… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
We should favor young immigrants with many years of work ahead of them. We should favor immigrants who have demonstrated an ability… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“For years they’ve grumbled that England is a cesspool governed by an immoral king under the spell of the Whore of Babylon,… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means,… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting. — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
“I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.” — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful. — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
I hear what they're saying. I ask my English tutor, 'What is this word 'tinkerer?'' — Claudio Ranieri Copy Share Image
I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there. — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
“The French are connoisseurs of sadness, they know all kinds. This is why they have bidets.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Only thing the French are good at is having affairs and giving up and losing fights. — Sean Strickland Copy Share Image
If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“I beg your pardon; I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.” — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
I really wanted to speak English because I started touring the world, and I wanted to communicate with people directly. — Miyavi Copy Share Image
My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory. — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
“To the French, [le plaisir] is a part of the general fearless and joyful contact with life. ” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
One thing that I miss because we spend a lot of time in America is English food, like cooked breakfast and Sunday… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
My English wasn't that good at first, and I made mistakes, especially with the slang. — Morten Andersen Copy Share Image
“While English is an international language, the Art language is the universal one.” — Sabina Hassan Copy Share Image
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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