Quotes About English

Praetorius was delighted with his new appointment, although his new position was not one normally associated with the fearsome Nazi war machine, let alone the Teutonic heroes of old. Praetorius had long been convinced of the therapeutic physical and cultural effects of English folk dancing. Somehow he had persuaded the German authorities of this and was duly appointed dance instructor to the Wehrmacht.

Eccentricity is one of those English traits that looks like frailty but masks a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.

The English in politics are as the old Hebrews in religion, a favoured and peculiar people.

Vol. 4: Complete Poems in English, Milton

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

MORDICO: Yes, to speak of an "un-American poetry" is to be anti-modern, searching for an essence, not in words but among words—to help English grow a limb it does not have.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crown'.

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

If I do something related to English music, it will be definitely in the direction of R&B and pop.

There's a lot I'd like to be able to talk about with relation to Stephen Harper, particularly why is he afraid to debate in English?

There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.

There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.

I take pride in the fact that I was the first Hispanic artist to really crack the English market.

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.

When you go to school in Holland you learn to speak English and write in English - but English is different from the Scottish language!

I would have been happy to play in Holland for a big club, but I can see the point of selling me to an English club. It's very simple: Dutch clubs are not going to spend £16m on a player like me.

I'm working on an international album which will be out soon, and Lollypop is gonna be a part of it. I want to let the world know what happens when a desi song is remixed with Honey Singh's English Tadka.

I am a pop and R&B singer. I'm not necessarily an Indian singer or musician. I sing in English, and the music I do blends hip hop, pop, R&B, and soul.

The writing of a series finale is horrible.

I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.

English people have a great sense of humour.