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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My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.
Mila Kunis 
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Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.
Ernest Istook
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Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.
Klaus Fuchs
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I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
Dan Fogelberg
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The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.
Colin Firth
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Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.
Sandra Cisneros
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"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?
George Carlin
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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
David Attenborough
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The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.
Jeremy Paxman
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