I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.
Going for constant growth is not actually delivering a decent standard of living and the prospect of your children having a better life than you do. That is the key thing that politics needs to deliver: a better life for your children. That's why people are taking their lives in their hands and crossing the Mediterranean and the English Channel.
We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie.
The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is.
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.
I've heard it said that if you know English, Spanish, Italian, and I think it's French, you can go just about anywhere in this world. . . except for China where they have all those derelicts.
Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.
English literature is a flying fish.
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.
Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs
you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.
My master's degree was in English literature.
I learned English from American pros. That's why I speak so bad. I call it PGA English.
I couldn't even have a guitar. But I got a three-track recorder that was so small that I could take it with me. Then I started recording and writing properly. I recorded lots of voices, not just my own. I was interested in people speaking and singing English and trying out words.
My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my life, she curates things for me. For example, I have the daunting prospect of Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" waiting for me when I get through my current reading pile.
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
I was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh - I'm English.