The English Quotes

I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that.

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

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

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language.

He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

I didn't understand how funny this play Much Ado About Nothing truly was until I became an English teacher and had to teach it. There is no wittier dialogue anywhere.

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a novel, let alone a really brilliant one.

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

I was also in love with the English language.

He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.

You forget, when you're in the Scandinavian countries, you forget they don't speak English first and they speak better than I do.

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.

I've always used Old English in certain songs.

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class

I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.

My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.

I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.

The English language is not always the President's friend.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

I live in a small country in Europe - Finland - and I don't speak English well and I had nothing to do with publishing houses in the West. I lived in complete isolation.

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.

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.

Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.

Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)

Basically [I become a Republican], pretty early. I had an English teacher that got me to subscribe to the National Review.

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

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

Honestly, I can't understand English poetry. Because I am not an English speaker, when I read it I never know how to read it in the right rhythm.

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.