De niro Quote by Jason Patric

They had nothing in common but the English language.

— Anonymous

Unlike Conrad or Nabokov, I didn't have circumstances which would have coerced me out of my native tongue altogether.

— W. G. Sebald

I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if…

— Meg Cabot

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

— F. E. Adcock

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

— Casey Stengel

There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.

— George Herbert

I really was the nerd in the car that read vocabulary books. If we were going on day trips, I would quite like to…

— Susie Dent

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French…

— Lauren Willig

I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

I had to know at least two languages.

— Novak Djokovic

French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale,…

— Patricia Hampl