A Quote by Oscar Wilde

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

Oscar Wilde

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British Course Except Identical Language Respects

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Oscar Wilde
Irish - Poet
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.

Ami Bera

I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.

Angelina Jolie

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

Guy Deutscher

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

Oscar Wilde

You will hear people say the C-word. Except, it's a regional language: in British English, c - t has much less of an inflammatory sense than it does in North American English. You can hear someone on British TV called "a c - ting monkey" or a man being called a c - t. The particular fascination of profanity is how culturally specific it is and how it evolves.

Kory Stamper

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

Mercy Otis Warren

You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.

Louis Auchincloss

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything

Rachel Weisz

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

George Bernard Shaw

De Palma is delicious! He respects music; he respects composers. For 'The Untouchables,' everything I proposed to him was fine, but then he wanted a piece that I didn't like at all, and of course we didn't have an agreement on that. It was something I didn't want to write - a triumphal piece for the police.

Ennio Morricone

America is our continent. You feel in the daily language that Americans use the word "America" to erase the rest of the continent from the map. And, of course, the language is clearly a reflection of the geopolitical reality: the domination of the United States over the rest of the continent.

Alfredo Jaar

Every moment I spend in Philly, it's amazing. The city respects us, respects sports, respects hard work.

Boban Marjanovic

A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't.