English Quotes

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

Since I learned English, I've become a motormouth!

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.

Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

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.

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 essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

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.