English Quotes · Page 23

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

— Alfred de Musset

Started out a weekend in May; I was looking for attention, needed intervention

— 5 Seconds Of Summer

Every time France has the chance of doing something big in the world of sport, it always carries it off well.

— David Trezeguet

I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden…

— Cynthia Nixon

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

— John Gunther

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.

— Amelie Mauresmo

The French have taste in all they do - which we are quite without; For Nature, that to them gave gout, To…

— Thomas Erskine

Americans have long had a difficult time accepting just how bleak the English are willing to get for laughs.

— Cord Jefferson

Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the…

— Om Puri

In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem…

— Pamela Druckerman

I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I…

— Edgar Ramirez

So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause.…

— Joe Arpaio

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world;…

— Richard Cobden

I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American,…

— Andrew Davies

Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around…

— Siri Hustvedt

America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an…

— Ahmet Ertegun

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

— Alex Kingston

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

— Jim Parrack

The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

— Harry Browne

I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses.

— Ben Elliot

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a…

— Vikram Seth

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

— Peter Oliver

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

— Gore Vidal

Camila Cabello did an amazing job with 'Havana.' It's Spanish, but it's English.

— Lele Pons

When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job,…

— Emmanuelle Seigner

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

— Peter Ustinov

I grew up in England, and people there are pretty difficult. They never say what they mean, and when they do it…

— Christina Pickles

I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in…

— Sandra Cisneros

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.

— Anonymous

An English summer's day is wonderful, but sometimes you have to look hard to find one!

— Romain Grosjean

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

— Gilbert White

“More than England to the British West Indian or even Holland to the Surinamer, France is the mother country to the Martiniquan.”

— V.S. Naipaul

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

— Louis Zamperini

French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

— Vincent Cassel

My English wasn't that good at first, and I made mistakes, especially with the slang.

— Morten Andersen

“While English is an international language, the Art language is the universal one.”

— Sabina Hassan

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

— Victor Hugo

“To the French, [le plaisir] is a part of the general fearless and joyful contact with life. ”

— Edith Wharton

One thing that I miss because we spend a lot of time in America is English food, like cooked breakfast and Sunday…

— Louis Tomlinson