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

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

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.

We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it.

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

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career.

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?'.

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.