The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
Charles Dickens

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
Alice Walker

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. Mencken

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Ambrose Bierce

Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.
Conan O'Brien

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.
Robin Williams

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
Germaine Greer

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

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

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
Mike Myers

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
Joan of Arc

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
Michael Moore

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
Golda Meir

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
Roald Dahl

The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles.
Garrison Keillor

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
Jackie Chan

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
John Ruskin

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce