Quotes About English

She would put her "naïve American optimism" toward making herself indispensable to him, and she'd win him. Because naïve American optimism beat out English cynicism any day.

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Schadenfreude, delighting in the misfortune of others. I often wonder why there is no equivalent term in English. There should be, considering it's a great American pastime.

In Lisbon, a street cry gloated over the Spanish defeat: Which ships got home? The ones the English missed. And where are the rest? The waves will tell you. What happened to them? It is said they are lost. Do we know their names? They know them in London. Oh

Ah, yes, beautiful English bones.

There's a word for this in English, he mused, still soft. I can't recall it. I've made you a...a fallen women. Yes? Yes, I agreed, still smiling. Thank you ever so much. It's been entirely my pleasure, he said in Romanian, and I turned my face into his sleeve and began to laugh.

And it is not in any of our interests to have the balance of power turned on its head like this. An overly mighty French king is no improvement over an overly mighty English one.

His scowl returned. Why, if they're supposed to be Greek, are all of them speaking with an English accent? She laughed. Didn't you know that British is, like, the universal 'foreign' language in Hollywood? They use it in any movie where they want to have a foreign feel to it, regardless of where it's set

Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.

This inscription most likely applied to Mary's claim to the English throne

I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

had traveled to London to study acting, pricked on by the sense that classical English acting was the high-water mark in English-speaking theater. I would soon learn a surprising truth: I came from America, home to an acting tradition that my new English friends envied, to an even greater degree than I envied theirs.

About 200,000 academic journals are published in English each year. The average number of readers per article is five.   The average numbers of readers of any given published scientific paper is said to be 0.6.

As long as there are beginning-English students and a lake and I can see a mountain, I will be perfectly happy," she said, reminding me of how my grandfather used to say he was a simple man with simple tastes: "All I need is a little milk from a goat that has been fed for a month on wild green pears.

CHAPTER V. 1846-1849 It is now time to tell the story of the romance which, during the last eighteen months, had entered into Elizabeth Barrett's life, and was destined to divert its course into new and happier channels. It is a story which fills one of the brightest pages in English literary history.

Tobacco Lords' success lay in their balance sheets: their ability to summon up capital from a wide variety of sources, while ruthlessly cutting costs. Investment money for ships, warehouses, and inventories (since Scottish firms, unlike their English rivals, bought the tobacco from planters outright instead of selling it abroad on commission) came from a wide variety of sources, including banks set up to finance the trade.

Intellectuals in Edinburgh were thrilled, not offended, when in the summer of 1761 the Irish actor and "orthoepist" (or pronunciation expert) Thomas Sheridan arrived in town to offer a series of lectures on English elocution.

This then was English fiction, this was English criticism, and farce, after all, was but an ill-played tragedy.

As far as I can make out modern Protestantism believes that Heaven is something like Evensong in an English cathedral, the service by Stainer and the Dean preaching. For those opposed to dogma of any kind — even the mildest — I suppose it is held that a Course of Ethical Lectures will be arranged.

Además de la ropa cara, los cigarrillos ingleses, los objetos de plata y de cuero, los analgésicos para el dolor de cabeza, la vida incierta y las mujeres hermosas, a Lorenzo Falcó le gustaban las cosas salpimentadas con detalles. Con solera.

Y en el asedio de La Mámora del año 1628, cuando los moros intentaron tomarnos aquella plaza, quienes cavaban las trincheras y dirigían las obras de asedio eran gastadores ingleses. Que a los hijos de puta, como es sabido, Dios los cría y ellos se juntan

Gibraltareño de padre maltés y madre inglesa, o sea, tradición pirata total.

How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did sly dog!

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