English Quotes

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn’t speak English and I couldn’t speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations – that’s why we got married really quickly.

I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.

If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.

Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.

Just remember if we get caught, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English.

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven’t used it for years!

Like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear – then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it.

English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit.