English Quotes

I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

We English have sex on the brain. Not the best place for it, actually.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

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

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America.

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

In 1628 came the first English attack on Canada.

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

I think we have really integrated well around Manchester. This is the place where we feel at home. We like it here, we love the English way of life and we prefer it much, much more than the south of Europe.

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.

I was a terrible English student.