Quotes About English

We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.

That's totally their interpreter, a girl with a lip ring informs us. Even though they totally record their music in English, they totally speak in Inuktitut. Totally.

I know the English are terribly sentimental about the sea, but I can live without it.

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way.

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

That would have been taken out of the Munrowe voice two or three generations ago through being educated at schools that modelled themselves on the English public-school system, even if they were in Scotland.

There was a jauntiness in the young woman's manner that appealed to Isabel. And then there was the accent, which was not Scottish, but from somewhere in Northern Ireland and not unlike Georgina Cameron's; the English that Shakespeare would have spoken, preserved by centuries of relative linguistic isolation.

We still, alas, cannot forestall it- This dreadful ailment's heavy toll; The spleen is what the English call it, We call it simply, Russian soul.

but he laughed as the English do at the end of his teeth.

And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.

I composed balanced sentences and periodic sentences and practiced, till I was blue in the face, the English department adage, Vary your sentence structure. Amazingly enough, having a mix of long and short sentences, along with topic-body-conclusion paragraph structure, did not automatically make my prose interesting.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

In our vile English climate, rough winds shake not only the darling buds of May, but of June, July, August and September as well.

I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.

The English girl scared her more than any other creature in the forest.

Princess, I assure you, the English Government may be riddled with imperfections, but in the matters of creative delay we are unmatched.- Nash Renfrew

Americans were most likely good people...the only thing wrong with them, David thought, was that they spoke English very badly.