English Quote by Héctor Tobar

“She needed to come with an instructional manual. And one not written in Spanish.”

— Kelly Moran

“When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I was nevertheless…

— Ben Lerner

“They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.”

— E.M. Forster

“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

“He knew enough of their language to understand her words. But speaking”

— Mark Wayne McGinnis

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

— Ken Liu

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

— Kevin Hearne

My grandmother is bilingual, but she preferred to speak Spanish at home, so she would speak to us in Spanish, and everyone responded in…

— Andrea Navedo

“She heard it as though it were what language was made for”

— Toni Morrison

“She invented her own language to say what everyone else could only feel.”

— Hannah Kent

She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

“In the superficial activity of her life, she was all English. She even thought in English. But her long blanks and darkness of abstraction…

— D.H. Lawrence