The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
To the Tamil media, I have mostly interacted in English since I am not fluent in Tamil. — Vijay Deverakonda Copy Share Image
It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English,… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“St George!’ the English shouted, but the saint must have been sleeping for he gave the attackers no help.” — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Ordinary British people don't on the whole find it easy to express their feelings, even to those closest to them. — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal! — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
The English have loudly and openly told the world that skis and dogs are unusable in these regions and that fur clothes… — Roald Amundsen Copy Share Image
I did everything in my power not to be an actress. I went off and did a teacher-training course first, so I… — Sarah Douglas Copy Share Image
“He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English,… — Juanes Copy Share Image
My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
People who use chew instead of you, or misspell words on purpose because they think it sounds better, thanks for disrespecting the… — Nathan Schwake 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
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
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
“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
“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
