In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door. — Julian Clary Copy Share Image
The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth. — David E. Goldberg Copy Share Image
English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes. — Trinny Woodall Copy Share Image
“The French have the right respect for dogs--in France we chiens get to go to lunch and dinner anytime, anywhere.” — Sheron Long Copy Share Image
In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive. — Cat Deeley 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
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It seems like we ever met," said Oriash, and his words make the kids fell silent. "Ever ... and so far away… — K.A.Z_Violin Copy Share Image
German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve,… — Franz Beckenbauer Copy Share Image
There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
There are 3 basic differences between we British and you Americans. One, we speak English, and you don't. Two, when we have… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
“...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“More recently, during a debate in the House of Lords in 1978 one of the members said: "If there is a more… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes these differences in meaning take on a kind of bewildering circularity. A tramp in Britain is a bum in America, while… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
As a nation, we English tend to be self-deprecating, looking down on ourselves. We're insular but also flexible, whereas in Germany, it's… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
Lyrics are important, but it's hard, because English isn't my first language - although it feels like it is these days! I… — Avicii Copy Share Image
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
