“What do they know of England who only England know?” — Rudyard Kipling Alice Kipling his mother Copy Share Image
It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“I beg your pardon; I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Only thing the French are good at is having affairs and giving up and losing fights. — Sean Strickland Copy Share Image
Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I hear what they're saying. I ask my English tutor, 'What is this word 'tinkerer?'' — Claudio Ranieri Copy Share Image
There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful. — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could,… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
“I said, 'Don't talk rot, Old Tom Travers." "I am not accustomed to talk rot," he said. "Then, for a beginner," I… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
“Took her [Ms. Whitlock] long enough to grade it." He mumbles. True. "But it took us forever to turn it in. She… — Katie McGarry 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
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
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
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
“Many French people were difficult conversationalists. Asking them not only where they were originally from but what they did in life was… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he… — Henry Noel Brailsford Copy Share Image
“That’s different. The French know that the English are superior to them and they’re appropriate about it. The Eastern Europeans on the… — Colin Browne 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
“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
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
I enjoyed English football from day one when I was with Southampton. — Toby Alderweireld Copy Share Image
When I first came to this country, I didn't know how to speak English. — Wilmer Valderrama Copy Share Image
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