#english

I want to have roles in English. ↗

— Paz Vega

#i #roles #want

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#crooked #english #french #honest #individuals

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! ↗

— Thom Gunn

#by the time #certain #change #closet #department

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#must #nation #owned #rather

Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#anything #being #bottoms #english #i

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#american #american society #ballots #benefits #come

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ↗

— David Ives

#because #challenge #comedy #english #form

A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond. ↗

— Robert Jenkins

#american interests #arm #beyond #could #english-speaking

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

#devised #english #ever #explains #ingenious

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman. ↗

— Junius

#englishman #liberty #palladium #political #press