Quotes About English

Cricket — a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

You need to know where to go, Sanya said. Yes. And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance. Yes, I said. The big man frowned for a moment. Then he said, There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

yes, I can in fact capitalize any words I desire. The language is English. I am English. Therefore mine is the opinion which matters, colonial heathen.

She was right. I was just about too tired to understand English, but she sounded pretty right.

Há carne biológica produzida em «quintas» inglesas tão tradicionais que as vacas são transportadas entre pastagens por passadeiras rolantes.

Stupid English. English isn't stupid, I say. Well, my English teacher is. He makes a face. Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me. Why not? He says lunch isn't a subject. I glance at him. It isn't. Well, Jacob says, it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this: The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.

The war against the English was premised against a desire by the European settlers to break out of the Thirteen Colonies and conquer the entire continent; this was a war for colonization, not a war against colonialism.

I am writing to Russell at the same time. I think we know, don't we, that the English, the Yankees, have this much in common with the Dutch, that their charity…is very Christian. Now, the rest of us not being very good Christians…That's what I can't put out of my head writing again like this.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English. ("The Adoration of The Magi")

The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.

The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher--we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature.

The request had been impossible to refuse, delivered as it was in Darcy's perennial air of wry cheer—a demeanor Aaron was certain was tattooed onto the English genome, right beside wry despair.

He was so entranced, he was so charmed, so captivated-rolled out flat, dreamed into, shone upon-that when she said his name, English started to live.

Interfering Englische schweine! For you very soon now it is curtains, and a death very painful.

Some were in Gaelic and some in English, used apparently according to which language best fitted the rhythm of the words, for all of them had a beauty to the speaking, beyond the content of the tale itself.

There was news to hear and to ask about—of English patrols in the district, of politics, of arrests and trials in London and Edinburgh. That he could wait for. Better to talk to Ian about the estate, to Jenny about the children. If it seemed safe, the children would be brought down to say hello to their uncle, to give him sleepy hugs and damp kisses before stumbling back to their beds.

fact been no more than a small skirmish between the MacKenzies and a detachment of English troops on their way to join the main body of the army. Said army was even now assembling

His Majesty has summoned several of the prominent English merchants from the Cité to lunch, for the purpose of providing His Grace the Duke with the company of some of his countrymen.

An Ashes series is huge for Australian cricketers - and English cricketers for that matter - and there's always that added pressure.

I'm English, and 'Doctor Who' was this thing that I've been watching since I was three.