English Quotes · Page 25

Don't deceive your self, Your English and Accent isn't a measure of intelligence

— Dumisani Bafana

“Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language…

— M.F. Moonzajer

The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country.

— Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

I really have no idea what the French think of my characters, or why The Devil All the Time did so well…

— Donald Ray Pollock

We [England] have become all Billy Big Time and become too big for our boots, and yet we have got nothing to…

— Terry Butcher

Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of…

— Chris Martin

I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.

— Julian Barnes

I'm adapting quite well to English football with the same will I've always had.

— Sergio Aguero

We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters.…

— Adolf Galland

Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and…

— Rob Sheffield

I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English.…

— Orhan Pamuk

In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I…

— Karen Maitland

New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never…

— Mira Nair

Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have…

— Julia Glass

Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.…

— Christopher Walken

My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they…

— Maria Karnilova

“It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'

— Lois Lowry

When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice…

— Joe Strummer

American and French culture are really, really different, but in a way it's funny.

— Patrick Mouratoglou

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.”

— Robert Arger

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

— Wilfrid Laurier

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

— Erin McKean

The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.

— Kapil Dev

We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.

— Joseph Addison

If there's one thing that chafes French pride, it's seeing the British steal the limelight.

— Marine Le Pen

English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.

— Anonymous

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they…

— Gertrude Stein

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to…

— Barry Eisler

That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

— William Shakespeare

England is so black and white, so plain, like a burger with nothing on it. No salad, nothing. That's why it's so…

— Skepta

“Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.”

— Mark Twain

I did an English album called 'Ice' earlier but it was too ahead of its time.

— Anu Malik

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

— Candace Camp

The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

— Thomas Carlyle