French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood.” — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Hollywood don't always pay a lot of money. Because we're English they think we're cheap! — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play.… — Kapil Dev Copy Share Image
At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste. — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“You know I am too English to get up a vehement friendship all at once.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
In 'Godha,' I was a Punjabi girl and had Hindi, English and Punjabi dialogues. — Wamiqa Gabbi Copy Share Image
The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I don’t fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans, — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They… — Tim Radford Copy Share Image
I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
“Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to… — Robin Flower Copy Share Image
People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my… — Xavier Samuel Copy Share Image
“It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Commencez!' cried I, when they had all produced their books. The moon-faced youth (by name of Jules Vanderkelkov, as I afterwards learned)… — Charlotte Brontë 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
I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad… — F. Sionil Jose 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
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
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
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
“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
I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff. — Abigail Breslin Copy Share Image
