English Quotes
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Every publisher or agent I've ever met told me the same thing - that Irish readers don't want to read about the bad old days of the Troubles; neither do the English and Americans - they only want to read about the Ireland of The Quiet Man, when red-haired widows are riding bicycles and everyone else is on a horse.
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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've always used Old English in certain songs.
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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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Casseroles don't have to be about canned ingredients and vegetables you normally wouldn't even think of eating alone, much less stuck in between layers of sauce and breadcrumbs. They can vary from everyone's favorite all-time casserole, macaroni and cheese, to the ultimate English casserole, Shepherd's Pie.
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English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
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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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I grew up in Siena and was surrounded by the Palio, and all my friends at school were obsessed with it. But since my parents are English, I was never quite part of it.
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I'd love to be able to do a really good English movie.
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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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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I want to have roles in English.
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Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God.
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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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I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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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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Here, whatever is not boring is not English.
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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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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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I'm English, and my favorite movie is Manhattan.
