English Quotes · Page 22

“You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English.”

— Robert Aickman

The English language is nobody's special property.

— Derek Walcott

English wine is nonsense. They are over-priced and not very good.

— Marco Pierre White

My English is good because I have a good ear.

— Barbara Sukowa

I'm obsessed with historical English royalty.

— Coco Rocha

England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.

— Quentin Crisp

The world doesn't revolve around English.

— HoYeon Jung

I watch lots of movies, both English and Hindi.

— Ayesha Takia

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might…

— Bjork

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they…

— John Cleese

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.”

— John Fowles

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

“The French: a people who have used their sophisticated culture and beautiful language to bequeath to the world the sliced potato.”

— Bauvard

I don't speak English, so I'll just have to win the trust and confidence of the fans with my performance on the…

— Masahiro Tanaka

I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.

— Francisco Costa

There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you…

— Anthony Horowitz

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute…

— Norman Douglas

WI played a young Helena Bonham Carter in a BBC film called 'A Dark Adapted Eye,' and I thought she was a…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of…

— Win Butler

Speaking and writing English perfectly should not be a privilege. To those who try to politicize this matter, I tell them now,…

— Luis Fortuno

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do…

— Ben Whishaw

My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and…

— Wilbur Smith

“Even the English, who understand it, are not exactly riotously amused by the understatement. At best, a well-timed, well-turned understatement only raises…

— Kate Fox

“New Englanders could be so brusque.”

— Cherise Sinclair

Since I learned English, I've become a motormouth!

— Ana Beatriz Barros

I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.

— Meta Golding

Sometimes I English very well but sometimes no

— Ramandeep Singh

In my mind, scatological writing is a core of the English canon.

— Jenny Zhang

We don't celebrate England, and being English, enough.

— Nick Boles

But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.

— Tony Judt

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

— Jules Verne

“Tedn’t fair. Tedn’t just. Tedn’t British.”

— Winston Graham

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

— Jack Ma

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

— Salman Rushdie

When I listen to Joy Division, it doesn't sound particularly English.

— Greil Marcus

France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.

— George Herbert

I learned English in a pub. I didn't learn it in school.

— Guenther Steiner

For me, it's a big challenge to translate everything in English.

— Till Lindemann

“Well, you know those Frenchmen. Always anxious to share their big baguettes.’” I”

— Kenneth C. Johnson