English Quotes
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All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.
Bernard Pivot
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The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.
Apolo Ohno
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Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.
Paul Watson
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I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.
Luke Ford
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In the multicultural West, our values are that we have no values: we accord all values equal value; the wittering English feminist concerned that her tolerance is implicitly intolerant of the Sudanese wife-beater and compulsory clitorectomy scheduler.
Mark Steyn
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My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.
H. L. Mencken
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The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet.
[Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]
Victor Hugo
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When I first came over to the States, I started writing, I think, as a way to help myself learn English. I would start stapling together little booklets for myself.
Marie Lu
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I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.
Emma Rigby
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They haven't made an armor strong enought to resist an English arrow.
Bernard Cornwell
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When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father. Now I was going to school in West Germany, which was American-occupied at that time. There in school, all children were required to learn English and not Russian. To learn Russian had been difficult, but English was impossible for me.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.
Anushka Sharma
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Having arrived in London to seek refuge during the civil war in Sudan, where I was born, the thing I'm most proud of is having totally evolved. I came here not knowing how to speak English, but I went to school and learned; I adapted to this new culture.
Alek Wek
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I believe there's no such thing as history; there's only historians, and in English, we've got this word 'his'tory, but what about her story? So that, in the end, the history of the world would be a history of every single one of its members, but of course, you could never get to grips with that.
Peter Greenaway
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The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.
E. L. Doctorow
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The English experience has greatly enriched me, and I'd like to carry on as manager.
Antonio Conte
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Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.
John Wycliffe
