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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English. -- George Bernard Shaw
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia. -- Ian Frazier
You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient. -- James D. Watson
I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English. -- Mamata Banerjee
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. -- Jack Prelutsky
I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress. -- Hani Furstenberg
Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.' -- Liz Williams
I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English. -- Paz Vega
Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode. -- Edmund Waller
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men. -- Germaine Greer
I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. -- Bill Gates
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. -- A. S. Byatt
Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! -- Leonard Cohen
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common. -- Stephen Fry
The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else. -- Michael Socha
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. -- Oscar Wilde
First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
I learned English kind of late. I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing. -- Penelope Cruz
Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring. -- Manfred von Richthofen
If onlyâ?¦the saddest words in the English language. -- Kristan Higgins
We only speak two languages here: English and profanity. -- Kevin Constantine
The only people who should play for England are English people -- Jack Wilshere
Look, lady I only speak two languages: English and Bad English! -- Bruce Willis
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity. -- Benjamin Franklin
Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease. -- Jacques Chirac
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. -- Aravind Adiga
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. -- Oscar Wilde
Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,' -- John Oliver
There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America. -- Chaim Weizmann
The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders. -- Andrea Pirlo
All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million. -- Tommy Lasorda
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think. -- Brendan Behan
I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child. -- Tilda Swinton
[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss. -- Pamela Frankau
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. -- George Orwell
I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated. -- Louis Zamperini
He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages. -- Max Eastman
Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot. -- Eddie Vedder
There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother. -- George Bernard Shaw
The most common double-letter pairing in the English language being the double L, of course, challenged only by the double T." -- Christa Faust
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract. -- Shuji Nakamura
The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English. -- Mahatma Gandhi
'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language. -- Erez Lieberman Aiden
For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter. -- Duff Cooper
The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in English. -- Paul Clitheroe
When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Spelling is difficult because there are too many rules. Silent letters only exist to make it harder for illegal immigrants to learn English. -- Daniel Tosh
For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed. -- Joe Dunthorne
The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour. -- George Mikes
I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing. -- Rob McClure
The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever. -- Guy de Maupassant
One Chinese tweet is equal to 3.5 English tweets. ... Because of this, the Chinese really regard this microblogging as a media, not only a headline to media. -- Michael Anti
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. -- Carl Sandburg
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. -- Douglas Coupland
I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story. -- Eric Bana
It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that. -- Manasa Rao Saarloos
Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym. -- Stephen King
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea. -- Florence Nightingale
My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer. -- Patti Smith
German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China! -- Helmut Jahn
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like. -- Albert Einstein
The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies, and in their cafÃ©s. -- Natalia Ginzburg
That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surrounded. -- Yuriy Tarnawsky
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? -- Barbara Ehrenreich
So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new. -- Cheech Marin

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