English Quotes

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times.

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

I read good. I was an English major.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.

Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty.

Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

I grew up listening to English music.

I was a terrible English student.

When I first came to this country, I didn't know how to speak English.

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

I want to have roles in English.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, but I think that seeing us being so incessantly nasty on screen has a drip, drip, drip effect on the rest of them.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

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 man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to Georgia and I would say things like 'open the boot' with a bit of an accent, and I quickly realized I had to adapt; that kind of thing will get you beat up!

I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.

I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook.

I do love cricket - it's so very English.

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

My master's degree was in English literature.

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.

I was an English major.

I never had much education in English poetry as such.

There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.

There is a certain ancient civility about tailors that is welcome - especially in modern London, which is now very much an international city, not an English city. They're still a little vessel of Englishness in what is otherwise a pretty rambunctious place.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.