“France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood.” — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff. — Abigail Breslin Copy Share Image
I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Only an Englishman of Morgan's class could call a queer suicide with overtones of financial wrongdoing a "muddle".” — James Lear Copy Share Image
They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur… — Jean Froissart Copy Share Image
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Remember that lettuce doesn’t grow on a spruce; and it also doesn’t rhyme with it.” — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
I get the sense that the British do not like to look at things on the bright side of life. Maybe it… — Ana Patricia Botin Copy Share Image
There's something in people's character, particularly the British character, about unfairness. They don't like it. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
I think we're all guilty of it as British citizens: if something gets big, we go, 'Ugh.' — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
“He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a… — Natasha Solomons Copy Share Image
It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off.… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an… — Jaime Murray Copy Share Image
“some trillions of years ago a sloppy, dirty giant flicked grease from his fingers. One of those gobs of grease is our… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at… — Amy Childs Copy Share Image
My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
Casseroles don't have to be about canned ingredients and vegetables you normally wouldn't even think of eating alone, much less stuck in… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“Susie: Hi Calvin! Aren't you excited about going to school? Look at all these great school supplies I got! I love having… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“संकट मोचन हनुमानाष्टक मत्तगयन्द छन्द बाल समय रबि भक्षि लियो तब तीनहुँ लोक भयो अँधियारो। ताहि सों त्रास भयो जग को यह… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
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