The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest! — Michael Flanders Copy Share Image
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your… — Yaya Toure Copy Share Image
If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
I feel that Britain is a rather self-deprecating nation: you're almost considered egotistical to say you're good at anything. — Rachel Shenton Copy Share Image
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
They're very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It's not that… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“विपद: सन्तु ता: शश्वत्तत्र तत्र जगद्गुरो। भवतो दर्शनं यत्स्यादपुनर्भवदर्शनम्॥८॥ Master of Universe I pray for calamities, So I do remember You ever… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
“I was sent to a school with bosses for teachers- no Twain, only cane; check your dick you harry, no Dickens either,… — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
“It may be a silly way, but if you remember that an owl looks like ʌ(OO)ʌ, it will perhaps help you remember… — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll go by and there are a couple of swans, the next day it's a few ducks. I'd like to stop… — Graeme Le Saux Copy Share Image
The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
My shirt and my hat always say 'World Champion' in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, 'Star Wars' language, which is also known… — Judah Friedlander Copy Share Image
England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
You know, now there is always half of the new Quebecers who are going to the English CEGEP. After that, often they… — Pauline Marois Copy Share Image
At the age of nine, I simultaneously fell in love with two Dutch sisters because they seemed so beautifully strange, and their… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“Valentine clears his throat. "So. Why can't you just say it?" "Say what?" "You know what." "It's hardly the time or place."… — Richard Rider Copy Share Image
“This was in [Orwell's] 1946 'Politics and the English Language,' an essay that despite its date (and its title's basic redundancy) remains… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
People forget that there are villages and communities that are still speaking French all over Canada. I went to a bar and… — Marc-Andre Grondin Copy Share Image
I'm pretty caring, loyal and loving to those who are close to me. Two of my friends are from school, so I've… — Marc Warren Copy Share Image
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