English Quotes
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Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.
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Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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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.
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I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.
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When I graduated high school, I was one of many English-majors-to-be traveling through Europe with a copy of 'Let's Go Europe' in one hand, 'Anna Karenina' in the other, a Eurail pass for a bookmark.
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Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said.
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'I would say, ‘Is there anything I can do?’-but Skip once told me that that was the most hateful and stupid expression in the English language.'
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Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.
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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.
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Initially, they wanted Columbo to wear a driving coat. I said: 'Are you kidding? He's not an English aristocrat.'
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What happens when I go to America is I sound really English. Most people would start sounding American, but I do the opposite.
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My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.
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They haven't made an armor strong enought to resist an English arrow.
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One of the strengths of the U.K. is its ability to attract very highly talented people from all over the places, but also their ability to send English people outside. So they're very brain circulation-oriented, and I do hope, even with Brexit, they will keep this asset they have.
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In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
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It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.
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I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.
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The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
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English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.
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I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.
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My English is very bad.
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I hear what they're saying. I ask my English tutor, 'What is this word 'tinkerer?''
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Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.
