Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

Hector Hugh Munro

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• When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • English
  • Thought

• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • History
  • Education

• I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.

  

  Maluma
  • Music
  • Trying
  • English

• English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Different
  • Culture
  • English

• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Country
  • Parents

• I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Never
  • English

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

  

  Karl Marx
  • English
  • Spirit
  • Revolution

• I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the railroad tracks and hang out with my black grandma. We have English teachers on my white side. My grandpa is a principal. And then you go to the other side, and people have been in jail.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • People
  • Up
  • House

• Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Small
  • English
  • Teach

• The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Germans

• My English is good because I have a good ear.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Good
  • English
  • Because

• of English It's your language. I'm just trying to use it.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Trying
  • English

• Oh the crap that lies lurking in the English soul. Somewhere it, the English soul, received an injection of romanticism which nearly killed it.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Soul
  • English
  • Lies

• Surely there is no language more majestic than that of Shakespeare, Milton, and the King James Bible, and if I am to have one language that I know as only a native can know it, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate that it is English.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • English
  • King
  • Bible

• I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to auto shop.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • School
  • High
  • English

• Growing up was very interesting for me. If you were Haitian, people just automatically assumed that English was a second language. So they had a special class for my brother and I, but we spoke proper English.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Up
  • Interesting

• Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • World
  • Great
  • American

• You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • English
  • Italian

• To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • True
  • Peace
  • Ego

• We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Good
  • Light
  • Die

• There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

  

  Arthur Middleton
  • Thinking
  • Church

• I loved 'Lost,' from beginning to end.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • English
  • Americans
  • French