English Quotes

I went to a basic school, which had children from all corners of the world, and met my best friend and had to learn Greek because she didn't speak English.

Kerry Greenwood
- World
- Children
- School
It is the nature of English society to do precisely that: to keep the lower classes low and raise the upper classes even higher.

Courtney Milan
- Society
- Raise
- Classes

I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

Jerry Spinelli
- Writing
- War
- College
I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel... I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.

Alan Bradley
- Book
- Fun
- Hand
There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.

Manfred von Richthofen
I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.

Orhan Pamuk
- Bad
- Stupid
- Speak
The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'

Imogen Poots
- Business
- American
- Start
I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

Jacki Weaver
- Mother
- Problem
- Woman