English Quotes

Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.

And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.

English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

And in English Canada, no one really knows where the support is coming from, but Conservatives would assume that it's bleeding from the Liberals. So we have a divided left in Canada.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

I've always felt very English.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.