English Quotes · Page 27

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

— Louis Zamperini

French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

— Vincent Cassel

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

— Gilbert White

“More than England to the British West Indian or even Holland to the Surinamer, France is the mother country to the Martiniquan.”

— V.S. Naipaul

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.

— Anonymous

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in…

— Sandra Cisneros

An English summer's day is wonderful, but sometimes you have to look hard to find one!

— Romain Grosjean

I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in…

— Mike Myers

Being a third-generation Mexican-American and speaking English exclusively, I heard Spanish spoken by my relatives all my life, especially when they didn't…

— Cheech Marin

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not…

— Mary Ellen Chase

I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and…

— Guy Laliberte

It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all…

— Enoch Powell

The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon…

— Henry Steele Commager

I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were…

— Annette Bening

'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially…

— Edward P. Jones

I grew up in England, and people there are pretty difficult. They never say what they mean, and when they do it…

— Christina Pickles

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

— Peter Ustinov

Camila Cabello did an amazing job with 'Havana.' It's Spanish, but it's English.

— Lele Pons

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

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

— Gore Vidal

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a…

— Vikram Seth

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

— Peter Oliver

I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses.

— Ben Elliot

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

— Jim Parrack

The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

— Harry Browne

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

— Alex Kingston

Americans have long had a difficult time accepting just how bleak the English are willing to get for laughs.

— Cord Jefferson

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.

— Amelie Mauresmo

The French have taste in all they do - which we are quite without; For Nature, that to them gave gout, To…

— Thomas Erskine

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

— John Gunther

Every time France has the chance of doing something big in the world of sport, it always carries it off well.

— David Trezeguet

I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden…

— Cynthia Nixon

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

— Alfred de Musset

Started out a weekend in May; I was looking for attention, needed intervention

— 5 Seconds Of Summer

I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.

— Francisco Costa

“Well, you know those Frenchmen. Always anxious to share their big baguettes.’” I”

— Kenneth C. Johnson

“It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.”

— John Fowles

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

I don't speak English, so I'll just have to win the trust and confidence of the fans with my performance on the…

— Masahiro Tanaka