English-as-a-second-language Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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

— Robert Aickman

“Who are you and how do you speak English?”

— Mohamed Moshrif

“Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with…

— Oscar Wilde

“I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.”

— Jimmy Carr

“That wasn't English she was speaking: it was the language of diplomacy.”

— Kevin Hearne

“she likes the sound of languages other than English.”

— Ken Liu

“Ive taught scores of American millionairesses how to speak English: the best looking women in the world. I’m seasoned. They might as well be…

— George Bernard Shaw

“She must sense we’re annoyed because she unleashes a flurry of words that make me think at one point she’s speaking in a different…

— Alretha Thomas

“don’t know about you, but my English isn’t perfect. I hesitate when I’m nervous, I forget precisely the right word every now and again,…

— Benny Lewis

“And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely. 'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I am illiterate. Just not in English.”

— Jarod Kintz

“In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one…

— William Golding