English Quotes
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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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English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
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Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
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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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Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
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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.
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I'd love to be able to do a really good English movie.
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The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!
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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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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 peace is the peace of the grave.
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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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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I'm English, and my favorite movie is Manhattan.
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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 want to have roles in English.
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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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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 love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.
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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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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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Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God.
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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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We like being English, but we're not that patriotic.
