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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no… — John James Audubon
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came… — Christian Bale
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of… — Javier Bardem
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are… — Drew Barrymore
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley
In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four… — Gael Garcia Bernal
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. — Mortimer Adler
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy -… — Annie Besant
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. — Ambrose Bierce
Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English.… — Juliette Binoche
Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they… — Michael Bloomberg
Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use. — David Bowie
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century… — Geraldine Brooks

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