Speak English Quotes

• To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.

  George Orwell

  Art, Struggle, Writing

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Humor, Heaven

  "True Stories I Made Up". Comedy album by Daniel Tosh, 2005.

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• We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

  Ed Miliband

  Party, Knowing, Needs

  "David Cameron attacks Ed Miliband's immigration plans" by Rajeev Syal and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Because you've been on dates where y'know, you forget to open your eyes and wear pants and speak English.

  David Cross

  Funny, Humor, Eye

  "David Cross: The Pride Is Back". TV Special, September 18, 1999.

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• The East End of Glasgow is like the Olympics. Lots of foriegners in tracksuits struggling to speak English.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Struggle, Humor

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• Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Speak

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• We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English.

  Scott Adams

  Goats, Speak, Knows

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• Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA.

  Robert Wright

  Jesus, Party, Reality

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• It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

  Peg Bracken

  Country, Travel, Waiting

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I always like a charity with people who don't speak English because I get them to do all kinds of things around my house.

  Joan Rivers

  People, House, Charity

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• Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

  Lawrence Welk

  Dream, Lessons, Dreams Come True

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Knowledge, Internet Users, Incapable

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You forget, when you're in the Scandinavian countries, you forget they don't speak English first and they speak better than I do.

  Doug Stanhope

  Country, Firsts, Forget

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• Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Long, Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: That CUPCAKE was off her head!”, p.23, Oldcastle Books

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• I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was desperate to fit in and spoke English all the time. Trouble was, in my household it was a no-no to speak English because somehow it is disrespectful to call parents and grandparents "you" - impersonal pronouns are offensive in Vietnamese.

  Andrew Lam

  Falling In Love, Grandparent, Stories

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Events, Facts, Significant

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• My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today stands on this podium in the great state of Ohio not only as the governor, but a candidate for president of the United States.I do believe in miracles.I've had a lot of elections. But my elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement.A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.

  John Kasich

  Mother, Father, Believe

  GOP Debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 07, 2015.

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• I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

  Shirley Hufstedler

  Education, Teaching, School

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• My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

  Margaret Cho

  Funny, Color, Parent

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• I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Accents, Traveled

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.

  Don King

  Stupid, Speak

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• I engage with New York and America but my parents pretty much hang out in this radius of Long Island where their friends are and where their work is. That's why you have people who have lived in New York for like 20, 30 years who don't speak English. They just live in a Chinese community or an Indian community. More than anywhere you'll find that in Queens.

  Himanshu Suri

  New York, Queens, Islands

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.

  Francisco Costa

  Fashion, New York, School

  "When Francisco Met Bianca". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.

  Francisco Costa

  New York, Father, College

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• If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Gold, Facts, Esperanto

  "The Gold Standard". Excerpt from chapter 17 of "Human Action, The Scholar's Edition", book by Ludwig von Mises, mises.org. 1949.

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