English Quotes

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career.

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.

Sometimes I'll go by and there are a couple of swans, the next day it's a few ducks. I'd like to stop there every day for a year and capture how it changes, then put it all together to create an incredible image of a traditional English scene.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket.

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.