English Quotes

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

Idris Elba

GoodVillainBadMoreEnglishMuch

We have a very long legal system with the European Union, and we're English speaking.

Enda Kenny

LegalLongSystemEnglishUnion

I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and a citizen of the United States.

Joseph Brodsky

ThinkYouCitizenPoetEnglish

The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.

Flula Borg

SayEnglishMustHardestIdioms

Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms.

Elizabeth Hurley

LaughAlwaysAnythingBeingEnglish

I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.

Jonathan Anderson

GoodSchoolEnglishVeryAppalling

English is not my first language.

Camila Alves

LanguageFirstEnglish

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

David Brainerd

WifePoorTalkEnglishBoardHis

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

Demian Bichir

TimeSpeakYoungActorEnglishAny

I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

Damon Albarn

EscapeStartedEnglishOffReally

My dad was an English professor.

Blake Lively

ProfessorEnglishDad

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

Christopher Hitchens

AmericanYouWhyWhy NotEnglish

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

Bernard Pivot

WordsGenderDifficultiesEnglish

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.

Cote de Pablo

SpeakEnglishSpanishActually

I'd like to play in English football, especially for Manchester United.

Alexis Sanchez

FootballPlayUnitedEnglishLike

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Clarence Darrow

SpeakLearnYouGoingEnglishEven

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Alan Perlis

ComputersEnglishJapanYourMade

I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have a connect with it.

Arijit Singh

I AmReadingShortConnectEnglish

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

William Bennett

ChildrenLanguageLearnTaskEnglish

The English experience has greatly enriched me, and I'd like to carry on as manager.

Antonio Conte

ExperienceMeManagerCarryEnglish

Afghanistan's story, backwards or sideways, is not confined to the Americans or the English.

Terry Glavin

StoryBackwardsAfghanistanEnglish

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Alice Walker

TeaPicnicEnglishReallyIndoors

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

Raymond Chandler

BestWorldAlwaysMayEnglishDull

When I first came to this country, I didn't know how to speak English.

Wilmer Valderrama

SpeakCountryKnowFirstEnglish

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