Quotes About English

The sound of an English accent distracted her and lifted her spirits. She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction. This wasn't, she knew, terribly sophisticated of her, but she had no real guilt about it. She felt the English were themselves to blame for her feelings. They had spent a century relentlessly marketing their detectives and wizards and nannies, and they had to live with the results.

She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction.

I fucking think they fucking belong the fuck to me, I can swear too, mate, I'm English. We swear without fear. The C-word? We say that too: cunt cunt cunty cunt cuntcunt. Go on, now. Get lost, you loudmouthed cunt.

She felt the English were themselves to blame for her feelings. They had spent a century relentlessly marketing their detectives and wizards and nannies, and they had to live with the results. Her

Ela associava sotaques ingleses a bules de chá cantantes, escolas de bruxaria e à ciência da dedução.

The sound of an English accent distracted her and lifted her spirits. She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction.

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

How fortunate that it was an 'unconventional' party, where formalities are ruled out! On this basis Aziz found the English ladies easy to talk to, he treated them like men. Beauty would have troubled him, but Mrs Moore was so old and Miss Quested so plain that he was spared this anxiety.

They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually were.

It was English, and the wych-elm that she saw from the window was an English tree. No report had prepared her for its peculiar glory. It was neither warrior, nor lover, nor god; in none of these roles do the English excel. It was a comrade, bending over the house, strength and adventure in its roots, but in its utmost fingers tenderness, and the girth, that a dozen men could not have spanned, became in the end evanescent, till pale bud clusters seemed to float in the air.

it was English, and the wych-elm that she saw from the window was an English tree. No report had prepared her for its peculiar glory. It was neither warrior, nor lover, nor god; in none of these roles do the English excel. It was a comrade bending over the house, strength and adventure in its roots, but in its utmost fingers tenderness, and the girth, that a dozen men could not have spanned, became in the end evanescent, till pale bud clusters seemed to float in the air. It was a comrade.

He felt that the English are a comic institution, and enjoyed being misunderstood by them.

It was like a disease, and these children whom I loved without caring about their skins or their backgrounds, they were tainted with the hateful virus which attacked their vision, distorting everything that was not white or English.

Since we had always sky about, when we had eagles they flew out leaving no shadow bigger then wrens' to trouble our most aeromantic hens. Too busy bridging loneliness to be alone we hacked in ties what Emily etched in bone. We French, we English, never lost our civil war, Endure it still, a bloodless civil bore; No wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted. It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted.

The academic establishment. . . . argue over the diminution of Spanish because of the introduction of new Spanish words that are literally translations of England glish-- parquear, the park of "park," tales the plancelebratory of the more elegant estacionar which could be literally translated as "stationing.

assassination, the activities of Sirhan Sirhan, and finally into Charles Manson and the murder of Sharon Tate. Larry Larsen provided some reliable information, given to him by Smith himself, outlining Smith's investigation. Richard Smith prepared a report on the English Satanists around the

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled,On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed.

I always put the apostrophe in "ain't" to make certain I'm using proper improper English.

I saw a film today, oh boy.The English army had just won the war.A crowd of people turned away.But I just had to look,Having read the book.I'd love to turn you on.

The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian "pahks" his "cah," the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to "warsh" his car and invest in "erl wells."

There's nothing to beat the full English,' Marc exclaimed. 'And don't you give me any of that continental rubbish. Yoghurt and croissant and that horrible concoction they call muesli. If you ask me, that's the best thing about getting out of the EU, and there's a long list where that's concerned.

There was something deeply offensive about turning a tiny incident, a tragedy in an English village, into some sort of Mills & Boon morality tale, and reading it, I felt less bad about her review of Mindgame.