Quotes About English

You don't want to be labelled with a conventional pronoun that has been in common usage since the English tongue was first established,' continued Beverley. 'And so, instead, you'd like to be labelled with an equally conventional pronoun that has been in common usage since the English tongue was first established. Simply the pluralized version. That's it, isn't it?

I have to consider the honour of my house.' 'Honour?' Jaikie queried. 'Yes, honour,' said Ashie severely. 'Have you anything to say against it?' 'N-o-o. But it's an awkward word and apt to obscure reason.' 'It is a very real thing, which you English do not understand.' 'We understand it well enough, but we are shy of talking about it.

Before. b-e-f-o-r-e, not B4. We speak English. Not bingo.

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

I like English football very much. It is truly one of the best leagues in the world.

Arsene Wenger is a legend in the English game.

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

I'm an English teacher, so I'm used to reading and I'm used to reading out loud.

It's good to be around an English manager.

I like to hear BBC Manchester about the news and to learn English and the Manchester accent.

I'd like to play in English football, especially for Manchester United.

What can it do in terms of worst-case scenario contingencies?' 'Cause a person to die.' 'Speak English for God's sake. I despise this modern jargon.

Well, he'd gone this far, animated by nothing more noble than curiosity, he told himself as he studied the face of the man in the mirror, pushing his collar down over his neatly knotted tie. The man's mind slipped into English: The cat's got your tongue. Curiosity killed the cat. To stay in vein, the man in the mirror gave a Cheshire smile, and Brunetti left the house.

In Paradise Lost he pushes English to its very limits but I think no language without noun cases could possibly support the structural order he attempts to impose.

I have got into one of my moping moods tonight,' said my father, after a silence; then quoting Shakespeare, whom, by way of keeping up our English, he used to read aloud, he said: 'In truth I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I got it – came by it . . . I forget the rest.

Mo had been the one Iraqi commander who stood head and shoulders above his peers. He excelled in both the planning and tactical execution of direct-action missions, spoke English almost fluently, and had the trust of both his men and the senior leadership of the MOI.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

I've been sniffing out the guys in my English class (to the extent that this is possible without getting my throat cut), but they smell the same way they always do: like feet and testicles. As opposed to freesias. I don't want to keep sniffing them, Lyd. - Letter from Seb to Lyd.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

Here is a very handsome English traffic engineer. The fact that he is so handsome, and so animated, and has such a fine English accent makes it appear, each time he begins to speak, that he is about to say something interesting, but he is never interesting, and he is saying something, yet again, about traffic patterns.