Quotes About English

The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.

Nothing is more reassuring, nothing is more true to the comfortable spirit of English occultism, than the smell of Brussels sprouts cooking

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

The film business is just one of our verticals. We have wanted for some time to make inroads into the English language market, because I think that over time such films can cross over into the international market.

Kate is determined that our children feel English, that this should be who they are. She adores London, as a Chiswick girl born and bred.

I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course.

You know the madness of the English football season has kicked in when a fan rings up 606 and says Arsenal will win the title.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

Yeah, I always had the habit of translating a lot of Black Sabbath records - that's kinda like how I first learned English, translating records.

I'd never known that anyone could kiss in English, kiss in apologies.

I ate it all, washed down by a good English beer, except for the tongue, although I eyed even that. After all, it was just beef, right? But I couldn't do it. Tasting something that might be tasting me back freaked me out.

Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value of this rug?" I didn't think his nostrils could flare any wider. His eyes were black flame. "Pernicious? Good grief, is English your second language? Third?" Only someone who'd learned English from a dictionary would use such a word. "Fifth," he snarled. "Answer me.

Temper, temper, wee English. 'Tis truly most becoming to you.

Nor am I saying that English conversation codes do not allow men to express emotion. English males are allowed to express emotion. Well they are allowed to express some emotions. Three, to be precise: surprise, providing it is conveyed by expletives; anger, generally communicated in the same manner; and elation/triumph, which again involves shouting and swearing. It can thus sometimes be rather hard to tell exactly which of these three permitted emotions an Englishman is attempting to express.

Even the English, who understand it, are not exactly riotously amused by the understatement. At best, a well-timed, well-turned understatement only raises a slight smirk.

retreat into the privacy and sanctuary of our castle-like homes, shut the door, pull up the imaginary drawbridge and avoid the issue. Home may indeed be our substitute for a Fatherland, but at another level, I would suggest that *home is what the English have instead of social skills*.

I mentioned earlier that someone once said that the English have satire instead of revolutions (or something to that effect): we complain bitterly, and often wittily, but we do not actually do anything about it.

I am more English than the English.- Rudolf de Vitt

most people associate bidets with France, and the French word is used in English, Spanish and Italian, it was the Italians who invented an oblong vessel,

Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.

Hawaiian English is like kahiko, the ancient dance, the kanaka dance of tradition, she says, harsh moves, slaps, and full of pounding force.

I went on to propose that our own culture and the classical tongues made a happier conjugation [...] English, I suggested, couldn't really express us.

I' before 'E' except after 'C', and when sounded like 'ay' as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays, and all throughout May, and you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!

I won the school essay contest!" Laszlo piped up in English. "I get to stay with the president today!" Maya swallowed hard. "That's great, kid. You must be really proud." "I am the future," Laszlo confided shyly. "I'm a big ragamuffin," Maya said.