Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
I've been given an amazing opportunity and I could not be more grateful. But I also know that all this will eventually… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in… — Miyavi Copy Share Image
From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The difference between the English and the rest of mankind is that the English have long known the truth about themselves —… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a certain ancient civility about tailors that is welcome - especially in modern London, which is now very much an… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
I have Czech, I have Russian, I have English, I have Italian. Uh, what am I missing? A little bit of Irish.… — Joe Lhota Copy Share Image
I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
“The French doctor - the French, they are a very logical race and make good doctors - says: "M'sieu, they have all… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Why this book? In today’s globalized world, it seems we forget things that happened only a decade ago. Thus, we repeat the… — Thomas Jerome Baker Copy Share Image
It's funny, I started by making fake American movies, 'The Transporter' and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four… — Audrey Meadows Copy Share Image
Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When Im in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football.… — Joe Scarborough Copy Share Image
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering,… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
I wanted to act when I was young. When I was 12, I asked the head of English at my school, 'Can… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
“The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
I think English punk died in '79 or '80. Maybe '82 at the latest. As far as American punk goes, it wasn't… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching.… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
“Ho ho ho, tell me why you are not at home' is something Santa Claus could ask you if you stayed in… — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
Jewish history has been in my cultural DNA since I was a child growing up in post-war London. In the midst of… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“It’s the obvious, painful example, yes. The scandalous thing, really, is that I do not believe the English are the most superior… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“Love is happy only when it is confident. When it is humble, it is full of pain and misgiving; there is hardly… — Dorothy Whipple Copy Share Image
Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
