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The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
— Stephen Ambrose
Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.
— Mary Quant
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
— John Hume
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers) — Samuel Johnson
The English will never be forgiven for the talent for destruction they have always displayed when they get off their own island.
— Hilary Mantel
You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.
— Josh Lanyon
I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.
— Jim Morrison
For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum
— Thomas Jefferson
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.
— Louis Menand
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.
— Bernard Pivot
English is my second language. Laughter is my first.
— Paul Krassner
This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books.
— Deyth Banger
You can learn English online
— Brian Daniel
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
— Bill Bryson
Enemies! People these days don't have enemies! Not English people!
— Agatha Christie
I believe librarians, like English teachers, sit at the right hand of God.
— William Deresiewicz
Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.
— Susanna Clarke
Ones Turd smells the same be of Servant or Prince (English Translation)
— Ricardo Cdcbsi 83592 Arjona
I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.
— Siri Hustvedt
We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
— Noel Gallagher
I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.
— William Mapother
The word hope first appeared in English about a thousand years ago, denoting some combination of confidence and desire. But
— Paul Kalanithi
Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.
— Eddie Vedder
He who makes no mistakes never makes anything.-- English Proverb — Andrew Szlachetko
English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
— Charles Lamb
It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.
— George G. Williams
We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
— Stephen Fry
I am more English than the English.- Rudolf de Vitt
— Kate Williams
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
— Charles Dickens
He quite liked the English. They tended to say sorry a lot, which was quite understandable given their heritage and the crimes of their ancestors.
— Terry Pratchett
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class
— Francine Prose
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.
— Matt Mullenweg
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
— Bill Condon
joined one institute in Patel Nagar to accomplish this goal; my English Teacher was strict, but she did not have much knowledge.
— Yogesh Saini
Those twin beliefs give rise not to a meek acquiescence to injustice in the world but to a robust determination to oppose it. English
— N. T. Wright
One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was the only book which allowed him to forget politics.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
— Golda Meir
I once met a beautiful, proper English girl. I bid her adieu ... she bid me a don't.
— Rodney Dangerfield
ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
center. He said no. He said, in very fine English, 'I buy, I don't sell.' Then he escorted me out. But I think that was Tran. Something about him.
— Michael Connelly
English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.
— Matt Groening
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.
— Rob Delaney
Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays.
— Terry Teachout
Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.
— Stephanie Perkins
The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.
— James Connolly
Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it's important but he doesn't know what to do with it.
— Adam Cooper
Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats
— Honore De Balzac
A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH.
— Elizabeth Wein
Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?
— Mary Rose O'Reilley
Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise ["Absolute English," Aeon, February 4, 2015].
— Michael Gordin
-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?I said nothing.
-Deny it,damn you! — Michael Ondaatje
I was an English major.
— Jenna Bush
Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.
— James Hunter
I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.
— Charisma Carpenter
Always I am speaking English on behalf of fools
— Michael Pitre
If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language.
— Raj Thackeray
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
— Carrie Fisher
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Only one god. Strange, that you English, who gather about you so many things, are content with one only.
— Geraldine Brooks
I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England.
— Olivia Hussey
My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
— J.M.G. Le Clezio
My master's degree was in English literature.
— Sylvia Browne
But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.
— John Edward Williams
The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn.
— J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.
No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words.
— Philip Pullman
You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English.
— Robert Aickman
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
— Al-Waleed Bin Talal
Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.
— Carolina Herrera
... gloom never forsakes the English...
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.
— Gerald Vizenor
Good things come to those who wait. English Proverb
— Bey Deckard
A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.
— Hiroyuki Sanada
The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.
— Alister E. McGrath
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
— James Otis
I do love cricket - it's so very English.
— Sarah Bernhardt
