English Quotes
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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.
James G. Frazer
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
Laurie Anderson
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Despite loving England and loving English gardens, I'm not a chintz person, never was. It's too cute.
Lee Radziwill
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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Dean Wesley Smith
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The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.
Bernard Bailyn
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My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
Denis Leary
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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.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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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.
Edward III of England
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I learned Punjabi before I learned English in spite of the fact that I was born in Canada.
Jinder Mahal
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I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.
Edmund Landau
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The script of Regression wasn't the draw for me. It was largely Alejandro Amenabar and his way of talking. To hear him talking about the script was way more interesting than the script. He wrote it, and so, English is his second language. It's an interesting thing. I've had that before. I was directed by Alfonso Cuarón before, too. It's always interesting when you're being directed by somebody like that. So much of directing is about communication, and finding the right words, and what it means, and how to convey certain emotions and ideas.
Ethan Hawke
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The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else.
Michael Socha
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The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!
Michael Flanders
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Then, aware once more of her obligation, she asked politely: “You only wrriter, or your work also?” “I hope to teach English one day.”
Bel Kaufman
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Some people say I sound Australian. I guess it's all down to Miss Matthews, who taught me English when I was growing up in Dar es Salaam. Nearly everyone in Denmark speaks English, and TV shows are only ever subtitled, not dubbed.
Sidse Babett Knudsen
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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
George Bernard Shaw
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
Charles Dickens
