Quotes About English

As George Orwell noted in 1946, "A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, and then fall all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

She was English, with all the characteristics that word implies.

I before e, Except after c, Or when sounded as a, As in neighbor or weigh.

among, between: Think division. If only two people are dividing something, use between; if more than two people are involved, use among. Here's a mnemonic: between for two and among for a group.

No one likes to be condescended to, so it's hardly surprising that so many high school students develop a loathing for the modernist novels they're forced to read in senior English and go to the movies instead. (Movies have plots, after all.) They're being good postmodernists.

The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.

When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

I think we have really integrated well around Manchester. This is the place where we feel at home. We like it here, we love the English way of life and we prefer it much, much more than the south of Europe.

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which is in a very well-to-do-community in Southern New Jersey.

My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

'Apartamento,' a magazine out of Spain but written in English, is one of my favorite magazines.

There were two main sources of technical knowledge and innovation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the hobbyist and the English rector, both of whom were generally in barbell situations.

Atrocities were expected in both European and Native conflicts. And yet, the English had to admit that compared to what was typical of European wars, the Indians had conducted themselves with surprising restraint.

schwa : The faint vowel sound in many unstressed syllables in the English language. It is signified by the pronunciation uh and represented by the symbol upside down e. For example, the e in overlook , the a in forgettable , and the o in run-of-the-mill . It is the most common vowel sound in the English language.