The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land. — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
I shouldn't say it, but I found that the French can be the most arrogant people in the world if they want… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
“ "Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.” — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I dont ever educate people by teaching English, I just make them realize what really is it? and nothing else. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest. — John Lawson Copy Share Image
We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional… — Mamata Banerjee Copy Share Image
My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous. — Robert Sean Leonard Copy Share Image
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I love all the shoe shops in Covent Garden. Laura Lee Jewellery on Monmouth Street for delicate gold jewellery. Every time I… — Caterina Murino Copy Share Image
...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
I must say that I am not very genteel and I feel that gentility has a stranglehold: the neatness, the wonderful tidiness,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King'… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didn't… — Delphine Arnault Copy Share Image
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both… — Richard O'Brien Copy Share Image
My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she… — Oona Chaplin Copy Share Image
When I went to high school, I wanted to be a designer of airplanes. But flunking out of the science high school… — Avi Copy Share Image
“The French have such an attractive civilization, dedicated to calm pleasures and general tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
“The vocabulary of flattery and insult is continually enlarged at the expense of the vocabulary of definition. As old horses go to… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
“We lawyers do not write plain English. We use eight words to say what could be said in two. We use arcane… — Richard C. Wydick Copy Share Image
“Being too American, or American at all, is pretty much the worst thing a Brit can be. “American” is synonymous with pushiness,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
