Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

William Shakespeare

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

Quintus Ennius

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

Clarence Darrow

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Doug Larson

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.

Dave Kellett

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw

Me fail english? Thats unpossible.

Matt Groening

I have had the opportunity to have a shave and relax in the bath and have a good English breakfast.

Norman Kember

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

George Mikes

English came out to win this game (Wednesday).

Jim Dakin

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

Jorge Luis Borges

There were a lot of things that were concerning me about this school before this. My son hasn't even had an English teacher all year, and the classes are so out of control.

Angela Williams

We can't communicate. I don't speak Japanese and he doesn't speak English.

Kevin Appier

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

Malcolm Bradbury

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

Gordie Howe

You see, I can't say it in English...

Carmen Kass

There is always contact and I think my style of play would fit the English league well.

Gerald Asamoah

He said in real good English, 'Did one of my soldiers take anything from you?

Mario Tonelli

She felt she wasn't ready. She wanted to work on her English a little more.

Kevin Cory

You would teach them English, and they'd teach you Spanish.

Stephanie Evans

In English we were reading the book 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' and the people of African-American descent, there were only two of us in the class.

Todd Davis

If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.

Joseph P. Kennedy

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

I speak two languages, Body and English.

Mae West

English is the predominant business language.

Rob Marr

Red lips are not so red/ As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

Wilfred Owen

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

Robert Graves

In her quiet way, Mary English mattered a lot.

John Ellsworth

Things like taking her math books to English class.

Marty Matzelle

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Almost all the English bands.

Steve Boone

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

Alfred De Musset

For the English majors of the world.

David Bodanis

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

Malcolm Bradbury

The gaffer has brought in some new players and some do not yet speak English.

Barry Ferguson

Warne is regarded [by the English public] as a devastating cricketer who deserves respect.

Matthew Engel

They understand English but we didn't understand a word they were saying.

Dave Tollett

It would be disrespectful to discuss successors now but the key thing would be to find the best man for the job. If he's English, then so be it.

Brian Barwick

It's like the English bard tradition, it's something that a lot of people know so well.

Charles Ross

He crossed the line between eccentricity and idiocy far too often for someone who was supposed to be running English cricket.

Ian Botham

Our biggest vending machine sellers are The Wok Cookbook and a French-English dictionary.

Xavier Chambon

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.

Robert E. Lee

It was an easy dunk for the commission to decide that the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Navy (Gordon English) were just way off base.

William McDonough

We've taken some of our business cards and have had one side in English and the other side in Korean. That will make it a little bit easier for them.

Cathy Crosson

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

H. H. Munro

He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.

Cormac Mccarthy

Phoebe English Tyler Wallingford Matthews Wallingford.

Ruth Warrick

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Robert Benchley

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

Gordie Howe

They didn't work. People were already familiar with the English version.

Luis Estrada

He was always interested in education. When you would go visit him, he would ask you what you read. And if you didn't (read something) he'd ask you why not. He corrected people's English, a lot.

Susan Vayne

I got A's in English and I was good at it. You've got to find what turns you on, what you're passionate about. Then, you've got to be good at it.

Omar Tyree

We primarily have English majors as consultants but would like to have some from other majors as well.

Patty Strong

It is very important for us to speak English. Very, very, very important.

Jose Mejia

I don't anticipate any problems with the English clubs.

David Moffett

The airfares are less expensive, and it's very easy to get there. It's very convenient. It's English-speaking and the value is good.

Caroline Haberfeld

At last they've got a manager who speaks better English than they do.

Brian Clough

English is an auditory language. ASL is a conceptual and visual language. It's not something that can be learned right away.

Ina Faye Price

English fought right to the end like they've done all season.

Gene Constantino

That's not a Christmas present. It's with you for the rest of your life, so no one can take it away from me and say I'm not English.

Kevin Pietersen

The English major background is mostly helpful. But sometimes because of the amount of criticism and analysis that we do in class, it is detrimental because of how critical we are with our own work.

Bryan Kish

English policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boathook to avoid collisions.

Lord Salisbury

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

John Cleese

I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time.

Harold Bloom

Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles.

George Mikes

I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.

James Carroll

The most beautiful words in the English langauge are 'not guilty'.

Maxim Gorky

This is America. The Constitution is in English.

Steven Berman

There's a lot of untapped talent and education because the only barrier is employees who can't speak English.

Michelle Miller

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

Mario Lemieux

Because my English is not very good, so I can't do it in English.

Miguel Garcia

Some Japanese actresses didn't even want to audition, because they couldn't speak English and were too afraid to try to take it on.

Lucy Fisher

The attitude of both the Welsh rugby team and English cricket team is very similar.

Hugh Morris

I got to like the English. They feel the same animosity towards us that we feel towards them, but they don't speak of it.

Dimitri Yachvili

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

Margaret Halsey

I would do 15 minutes in English, then go do 45 minutes in Spanish. It was a lot of work.

Alfredo Gutierrez

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

Alexander Woollcott

We go beyond the literacy in our conversational English classes by meeting basic human needs.

Janet Smith

It was my best goal in English football.

Junichi Inamoto

English is a funny language. A fat chance and a slim chance are the same thing.

Jack Herbert

My least favorite phrase in the English language is "I don't care."

James Caan

And it's important for the people who don't know English so they can get better jobs.

Sergio Marquez

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

Princess Anne

We English have sex on the brain. Not the best place for it, actually.

Laurence Harvey

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

Wilfred Sheed

I'm just saying it could be an English win.

Dennis Lillee

The emergence of these Asian players in English cricket is certainly a great boost for the Asian community, and more & more young Asians will be encouraged to take up cricket in England.

Sajid Mahmood

She couldn't speak English very well. You would think it was a big communication barrier, but it wasn't. We could understand each other.

Stephanie Mcgilvrey

What we have done is made sure that we've safeguarded the future of English cricket.

David Collier

The English country folk dance was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I.

Gayla Curtis

His English is so much better, and he's such a good kid. And he dominated on the court. It was good to see.

Dave Twardzik

The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

Quentin Crisp

The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.''.

Dorothy Parker

Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America.

Kelly Osbourne

I love England, one reason being the magnificent breasts of English girls.

Emmanuel Petit

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

Edmund Waller

The driver didn't speak English.

Eude Brito

After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

Zhang Ziyi

He's someone who's perfectly fluent in English, in Urdu, in Arabic.

Evan Kohlmann