Top English Quotes
In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
Cyril Cusack
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Booker T. Washington
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Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.
Andy Partridge 
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I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.
Deborah Kerr
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One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
Edward Sapir
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Karl Marx
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The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America.
Kelly Osbourne
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It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
William Wiley
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It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.
John Drinkwater
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All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Gordie Howe
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