English Quotes
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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 are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
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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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I want to have roles in English.
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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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The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.
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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 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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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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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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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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I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.
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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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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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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'd love to be able to do a really good English movie.
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Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God.
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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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I'm English, and my favorite movie is Manhattan.
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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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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
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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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The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!
