Quotes About English

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

There's just something about being English. When you travel the world you feel more grateful.

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

Her jaw dropped. She grabbed him by the shoulders. "I think I have formed an attachment to you. You know, what the English call a desire to have symphonic concerts with someone at all hours of the day?" He smiled. "And I love you too, darling." -Lizzy and Will

He had also —in a masterstroke of marketing—recently given his cows English names, since his best customers were an American family deployed to the local embassy. So Kamala had become Coffee, Gomu had become Gaby, and Shanti had become Tiger

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put.

I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.

but English nachos are very bad. Do not eat English nachos. I swear to God I've seen them put baked beans on them. Fish and chips, however, are very good. That's not a stereotype. That's fact. And that's what we are getting.

a crucial element of English success was their commanders' ability to learn on the fly, make adjustments, and attempt new tactics. The Spanish paid a heavy price for their lack of equal flexibility.

I will love you, my English rose, and you will fill my French dreams

She hasn't been back since, and we have a young per diem substitute who had taught shoes in a vocational high school on her last job. Though her license is English, she had been called to the Shoe Department, where she traced the history of shoes from Cinderella and Puss in Boots through Galsworthy and modern advertising. Best shoe lesson they ever had, she told me cheerfully. Until a cop came in, dangling handcuffs: 'Lady, that kid I gotta have.' To her, Calvin Coolidge is Paradise.

Did I know all that at eleven? Some, I think. It lay in my heart, unformed, unspoken, but hard as a stone. It would be covered over in time, half forgotten and often contradicted, but it was always there. Destiny is all, Ravn liked to tell me, destiny is everything. He would even say it in English, "Wyrd bi ful aræd.

I spoke in English because the language of the Frisian people is so close to our own.

I wish to understand [Plato], but to treat him with as little reverence as if he were a contemporary English or American advocate of totalitarianism.