Top 57 English Bad Quotes
#1. I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.
Sean Bean
#2. President Bush called Arnold to congratulate him today, and after he got off the phone, Arnold said, 'I thought my English was bad.'
Jay Leno
#3. The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.
H.L. Mencken
#4. Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.
William Shakespeare
#5. There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Fenimore Cooper could write English, but they are all dead now.
Mark Twain
#6. We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
William Kingdon Clifford
#7. I'd love to be a part of 'Star Wars.' I'd be a Sith, of course - I'm English! We've got the voice, and it's perfect for the bad guys.
Jamie Campbell Bower
#8. The fight against bad English is not frivolous.
George Orwell
#9. English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.
Kevin Keegan
#11. The mass migration of the poorest of the poor to America is bad for the whole country, but it's fantastic for Democrats. Ask yourself: Which party benefits from illiterate non-English speakers who have absolutely no idea what they're voting for, but can be instructed to learn certain symbols?
Ann Coulter
#12. Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.
George Mikes
#13. But this is exactly why I read
and don't belong to a book group
because reading is the most individual thing there is. Why collectivize it? Didn't we have enough bad English teachers in school? Crowd sourcing and literature shouldn't mix.
Peter Orner
#14. I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.
Edith Wharton
#15. [On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
Katharine Whitehorn
#16. For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English people who might have been ignorant but were certainly not bad.
Anne Holm
#17. Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?"
"I've lived a long time, kid, and I've never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you.
Karen Marie Moning
#18. The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.
Wilkie Collins
#19. the Japanese ministry of Education acted with inappropriate haste and unforgivable cavalierness, implementing drastic change before anyone realized what was happening. . . . In English it would be almost ad bad as enforcing a new spelling of philosophy as filosofee.
Minae Mizumura
#20. I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
Jet Li
#21. The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it.
Patrick Macnee
#23. 'Darling, you have to come home,' she started in as soon as I answered. 'You cannot possibly want to stay in that ... that tomb with bodies falling out of the wall!'
'I don't know why not,' I replied. 'It's everything a ghoul could ask for.'
Josh Lanyon
#24. Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.
Padgett Powell
#25. It's a bad dream: my English teacher is standing naked at the foot of this slightly lumpy bed, clutching a pair of not-quite-white underpants in his hand, studying me with this creepy look on his face, the one he gets when he's reading aloud in class and wants us to think he's moved by the passage.
Tom Perrotta
#26. The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
Idris Elba
#27. Very bad indeed. Defoe never acquired a really good style, and can in no true sense be called a "master of the English tongue." Nature had gifted Defoe with untiring energy, a keen taste for public affairs,
Daniel Defoe
#28. I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.
Diego Maradona
#29. I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#30. Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree ... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.
William Raspberry
#31. Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.
Marvin Hagler
#32. Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don't speak English?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#33. I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
Rafael Nadal
#34. With secret delight, he began teaching Bad Eye catastrophically bad English. From that day forward, when asked, "How are you?," Bad Eye would smilingly reply, "What the fuck do you care?
Laura Hillenbrand
#35. Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad.
Eudora Welty
#36. In the mind of all the English soldiers there is absolutely no hate for the Germans, but a kind of brotherly though slightly comtemptuous kindness - as to men who are going through a bad time as well as ourselves.
Ivor Gurney
#37. Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
David Bowie
#39. English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
John Cleese
#40. So, I am a b*stard, and the English are b*stards. But the really bad news is that you are too. My vision of Europe would be Europe of b*stards for whom the question of legitimacy was a site of endless struggle and contestation ...
Simon Critchley
#41. In my first season I was learning about English football in a new team. I scored 13 which isn't bad, but I think I can do better.
Luis Garcia
#42. My Geordie is probably just about as bad as my English.
George W. Bush
#43. I will say that as far as I know, only in English are the words "self" and "conscious" put together to mean something bad. My
Elliott James
#44. I was an English major in college, though I ended up getting my degree in "General Stduies" because my grades were too bad to qualify for an English degree.
Josh Lieb
#45. I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#46. I'm skipping, but Cam doesn't have a class until this afternoon, so he's a good boy."
"And your a bad boy?"
"Oh, I'm a bad, bad boy."
"Yeah, as in bad at spelling, math, english, cleaning up after yourself, talking to people, and I could go on.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#47. I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.
Tim Roth
#48. I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I'm claiming that I'm an artist of some kind.
Brian Eno
#49. When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job, I think, but I was not amazing.
Emmanuelle Seigner
#50. Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.
Joe Haldeman
#51. Guy was saying, "What the hell is it about you that attracts murder and mayhem?"
"Something in my body language?"
He groaned. "That was bad - even for you.
Josh Lanyon
#52. I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
Orhan Pamuk
#53. We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.
James Purefoy
#54. They mimicked what Americans told them: You speak such good English. How bad is AIDS in your country? It's so sad that people live on less than a dollar a day in Africa.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#55. I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.
Bernadette Devlin
#56. Look, lady I only speak two languages: English and Bad English!
Bruce Willis
#57. [It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and ... the Revolutionary War.
Benjamin Franklin
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