The-english Quote by Terry Pratchett

“He disliked English, not because they had invaded his country, but because of the effort required to understand their different languages and customs. At…

— Leila Aboulela

“I think you should be grateful to the English, they built this country and made it civil.”

— Peter Murphy

“Then the town was sorry with being glad, as people sometimes are sorry for those whom they have at last forced to do as…

— William Faulkner

“He asked nothing better than to kill an Englishman. He had accounts to settle with the bastards.”

— Ian Fleming

“Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language.”

— Terry Jones

“He might as well have been talking English, for all Mae understood him.”

— Geoff Ryman

“He had always been too English; by which he supposed he meant that he was ordinary.”

— Rachel Joyce

“He spoke in english. Not flawlessly by any means. Not like a Nazi POW camp commandant who appreciates english poetry and says things like…

— Alex Garland

“He had a hint of a British accent; either he was American and had been educated in England or was English and had been…

— Ted Heller

“There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.”

— Jack London

“I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.”

— Anne Rice

“And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it,…

— John Green