English Quotes
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I'm English, and my favorite movie is Manhattan.
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I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
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Anyone that was raised with a Germanic language will agree that our tone is strong, especially once translated into English.
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Despite loving England and loving English gardens, I'm not a chintz person, never was. It's too cute.
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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Dogs being great linguists, she quickly picked up English, far more quickly than I picked up German, so we understood each other very well, and couche, schönmachen, and pfui continued for a long time to be my whole vocabulary.
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I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.
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The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.
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Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of 'Doctor Who.'
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The English peace is the peace of the grave.
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English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
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I write in what we call Hiberno-English, and it would be disastrous to lose my literary accent, as both Joyce and Beckett began to do in exile. In their case the unique tone of voice they each unwittingly adopted only made for a deeper poetic intensity; I suspect if I were to undergo a similar loss the result would not be so productive.
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But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.
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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
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Of the Black Prince his son at Crécy, 1345: Let the boy win his spurs. Old English Also say to them, that they suffre hym this day to wynne his spurres, for if god be pleased, I woll this iourney be his, and the honoure therof.
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I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.
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Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God.
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We like being English, but we're not that patriotic.
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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
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Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.
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The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else.
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Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.
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I speak German, Italian, French, Spanish and English.
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The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!
