The English Quotes

I always like a charity with people who don't speak English because I get them to do all kinds of things around my house.

In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.

Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.

Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.

I was an English major in college, though I ended up getting my degree in "General Stduies" because my grades were too bad to qualify for an English degree.

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language.

Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill—plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English language— to break up with someone in fewer than 140 characters.

Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.

Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it.

I‘ve said it once and I will say it again, why can‘t everyone just speak English? The Americans give it a bit of a go — why can‘t other nations?

I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!

Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.

I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.

I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as a journalist would, finding out what I needed to know.

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

In school [I wanted] to be an English teacher.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

Whether I go to English-speaking countries or non-English-speaking countries I can just modulate to what works for them.

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.

Dejardins was so stunned, he momentarily forgot how to speak English. "Ce n'est pas possible. On ne pourrait pas-

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You know, I wrote short stories and things like that. And they liked them very much.

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

How the English love playing at being naughty boys!