Top 1200 Plain English Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.

Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles.

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

The English, in their ignorance, still have the romantic notion that Scottish schools are superior to English ones; they are at least a generation out of date.

I was a Barcelona fan. My favorite player was Ronaldinho. But I watched a lot of English football and admired lots of English teams.

I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course.

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.

I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.

One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.

I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

I have always felt most comfortable singing in English, perhaps because I think in English.

Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.

I've often been asked, 'aren't you going to sing in English?' So I'm very glad to have a song in English.

I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years of coming to the US that I started writing in English, although purely for myself, not trying to get it published. Living in America, I was constantly in touch with English, and Ukrainian was for me a private language.

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.

In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

I speak English. I dream in it. I cannot separate my English from my Shona; I see the world with those two languages.

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

I'm not a native English speaker but do post tweets in English.

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

I learned English from American pros. That's why I speak so bad. I call it PGA English.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.

A lot of linguists in the market, especially interpreters of foreign languages, do not have a great command over the English language, especially if they are translating into English.

Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

When the medium of the film is English, even the illiterates also should speak in proper English.

If you smoke, plain and simple, stop smoking. If you drink, plain and simple, stop.

English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.