It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!
Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.
I know my own heart to be entirely English.
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.