Quotes About English

They're allies, Jamie. She immediately let go of him, straightened her back, and refolded her hands in her lap. I guessed as much, she whispered. It was a lie, made blacker still when she added, Even from this distance I can see them smiling. An eagle couldn't see their faces from this distance, he answered dryly. We English have perfect eyesight.

You don't see the point of English literature?' 'I don't see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?

He brought her a cup of tea, the first and last resource of an English husband.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?

I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.

If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom. The way they produce in Hollywood doesn't fit me.

I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

On Sundays, we would travel to the town and watch English movies. This way, we must have ended up watching some 1, 000 movies during college.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing...

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

There are two sides of me, the bachata/tropical Latin side and the English pop as well. They're both equally important, so I'll always make sure to keep both roots in my music.

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.