Quotes About English

My brother, being an English gentleman, possesses a library in all his houses, though he never opens a book. This is called fidelity to ancient tradition.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

What a shocking set of crooks these English servants are! Not even murder will turn them from their feudal devotion to the man who pays!

If they are cold, these English women, it is because they are frozen with neglect.

Well-bred English people never have imagination, Bunter.

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people drink cheap instant coffee instead, which is a pity, and gives Americans the impression that the English are just generally clueless about hot stimulants.

I went to Cambridge University. I took a number of baths - and a degree in English. I worried a lot about girls and what had happened to my bike. Later I became I writer and worked on a lot of things that were almost incredibly successful but in fact just failed to see the light of day. Other writers will know what I mean.

You are, without doubt, holding in your hands one of the best-introduced books in the English language. We hope you enjoy the Introduction to the New Edition that follows this Introduction to it and continue to read on even into the book itself.

The sky which had started out with such verve and spirit in the morning was beginning to lose its concentration and slip back into its normal English condition

Two places away to the left was the don who had been Richard's Director of Studies in English, who showed no signs of recognising him at all. This was hardly surprising since Richard had spent his three years here assiduously avoiding him, often to the extent of growing a beard and pretending to be someone else.

I went to Cambridge University. I took a number of baths—and a degree in English.

What it does serve to remind us is that learning formal English grammar from a nineteenth-century textbook, without a qualified teacher, was a truly daunting task, as anyone who picks up a copy of Kirkham's will readily see.

You yourself are English and yet you do not seem to appreciate the quality of the English reaction to a direct question. It is invariably one of suspicion and the natural result is reticence.

With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in front of the gloomy inspector.

Pardon, monsieur, for interrupting, but was that a common practice of his?" "No, it was not, but old Françoise has the common idea as regards the English—that they are mad, and liable to do the most unaccountable things at any moment!

The weather was always the same—fine. No interesting variations. "The many-splendoured weather of an English day," she

She transferred her gaze to me. "You are his secretary, I suppose?" "Er—yes," I said doubtfully. "Can you write decent English?" "I hope so." "H'm—where did you go to school?" "Eton." "Then you can't.

Com maior percepção do caráter inglês, servi uma forte dose de uísque com soda e coloquei-a na frente do desditado inspetor.

Blowpipes and darts——heathen, I call it," said Mrs. Mitchell. "You are right," said Poirot, addressing her with a flattering air of being struck by her remarks. "Not so is an English murder committed." "You're right, sir.

There were also American visitors fascinated by seeing the titled English really getting down to their traditional afternoon tea.

Yet for all his idiosyncrasies in writing for the stage, Vaughan Williams did create several works of great power and beauty. Given the degree to which he refused to compromise his artistic vision, and the long odds most English composers of his generation faced in having their stage works realized – not to mention the lack of encouragement from the English musical world in general – the fact that he met with any success at all is remarkable.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Born into prosperity, the two sisters were inseparable; they traveled widely in pursuit of culture, and in the early 1840s they settled for a time in Paris, where Jane took piano lessons from the English pianist Lindsay Sloper, who was himself a pupil of Chopin's.