English Quotes

An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

Jules Verne
- English
- London
- Criminal
Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

Alfred de Musset
- Things
- English
- Sensation

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

George Bernard Shaw
- Food
- English
- Survive
Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

Lewis Carroll
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

George Bernard Shaw
- Respect
- English
- Language
A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH.

Elizabeth Wein
- English
- Established
I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

Bill Gates
- People
- English
- Languages
Dogs being great linguists, she quickly picked up English, far more quickly than I picked up German, so we understood each other very well, and couche, schönmachen, and pfui continued for a long time to be my whole vocabulary.

Elizabeth von Arnim
- German
- Dogs
- Vocabulary

I speak German, Italian, French, Spanish and English.

Ornella Muti
- English
- Speak
- Italian