Quotes About English

You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so." "I don't mind.

Out of us all That make rhymes, Will you choose Sometimes - As the winds use A crack in the wall Or a drain, Their joy or their pain To whistle through - Choose me, You English words?

And I don't want to miss the tea when it's still hot. I have never been able to understand why you English wait to drink your tea when it's lukewarm.

There have been a bunch of Indian films in English that found an audience.

The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures.

There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories to be had, and it was stories I craved.

When you put something on Instagram, the English people are always so positive. As a player, you need that.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

I love English football. I love the way people live it so intensely.

I love English football because of its brilliant atmosphere, intensity of the competition and the culture of respect that fans and players have for the game.

Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.

I am learning English and even try to talk in English with people. I don't care if people are laughing at me. I always look at the Internet for the correct pronunciation and play word games.

I believe in some parts of Nietzsche, I prefer to read him in sections; In my heart of hearts I suspect him of being the one modern christian; Take notice I never have read him except in English selections.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

when it happened, but now it appeared that she'd been even younger. The faded writing would be almost indecipherable even if it had been in English. It was going to take more than her knowledge of Yiddish to make out the text. The envelope had arrived in

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

A fervent young admirer exclaimed: "By Jove, the Good Soldier is the finest novel in the English language!" whereupon my friend John Rodker, who has always had a properly tempered admiration for my work, remarked in his clear, slow drawl: "Ah, yes. It is, but you have left out a word. It is the finest French novel in the English language!"

Love with his gilded bow and crystal arrows Has slain us all, Has pierced the English sparrows Who languish for each other in the dust, While from their bosoms, puffed with hopeless lust, The red drops fall.

we use an English word for a farm animal and a French word for the cooked meat it provides.

Only one detail gave me pause. He had a heterosexual actor in mind to play [Albin]. He assured me that Douglas Hodge was a brilliant choice for the role. And since I was being handed ninety-percent of my dream production, I gave my approval. Hell , I thought, If it's no good it's only being done in this tiny fringe theatre. Take the leap. Besides, this actor is English. None of them come off as straight. What's gayer than Hugh Grant in a rom-com?

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.