Quotes About English

A novelist, poet and playwright who writes equally well in Shona and English, Charles Mungoshi is Zimbabwe's finest and most versatile writer. His life project has been to interrogate the notion of family.

I think it's important that the English culture changes a little bit and we do start to go abroad and step out of our comfort zone.

He speaks English with the flawless imperfection of a New Yorker.

Newfoundland is a great English ship, moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of the English fishermen.

The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.

Let us be French as the Americans are English.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.

Some people say I sound Australian. I guess it's all down to Miss Matthews, who taught me English when I was growing up in Dar es Salaam. Nearly everyone in Denmark speaks English, and TV shows are only ever subtitled, not dubbed.

I'm not a native English speaker but do post tweets in English.

I pretty much spent my twenties as a musician and taking acting classes. I loved it. I was at UCLA getting As and Bs in English and creative writing, basically trying to stay out of the Army. All I really wanted to do was play music.

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

I was very surprised that they would ask a foreign actress to be Lady Macbeth, but I felt it was an opportunity that I couldn't miss. Having the opportunity to play Shakespeare in English - that wouldn't come twice.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

What I said was: We want everybody to learn English because we don't want - I didn't use the word 'Spanish.'

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.

Funny,' Will said, as they picked their way through. 'Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling.' 'They are English,' Merriman said. 'Quite right,' said Will's father. 'Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. We're an odd lot….