Quotes About English

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

I speak twelve languages. English is the bestest

Heaven is an American salary, a Chinese cook, an English house, and a Japanese wife. Hell is defined as having a Chinese salary, an English cook, a Japanese house, and an American wife.

We're Irishmen, and our food is being sent away, grown in Irish soil to feed English bellies, while ours are empty and our people starve and

develop the 100 word vocabulary taught to the Lao tribesman to make the rudiments of combat conversation. A few nouns, some basic single tense verbs, names of weapons and directions made up the pidgin English. Like spice, flavor was added by whichever additional words the Special Forces teacher felt appropriate. The basic word denoting the reproductive act, and its many wondrous and colorful variations, was by far the most popular and common.

The English were fascinated with the Italian people and their amazing Epicurean culture. Italian poetry, painting, pornography, music, drama, fashion, wine, women, cheese, anything Italiano was a premium commodity in London during Shakespeare's day.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.

English clubs are very exclusive. I played Royal Foxshire and they made me wear a suit and tie. . . in the shower.

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

I beg your pardon I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man.

In the Belgian backwaters, south of Bruges, there lives a reclusive English composer, named Vyvyan Ayrs. You won't have heard of him because you're a musical oaf, but he's one of the greats.

...seeing the way his trousers clung to those most English parts.

This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books.

A man once asked to shake hands with me, the "greatest Englishman who ever lived." I replied, "F**k off, I'm Irish."

The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.'

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

What was new to our ears these days, and thrilling to hear, was the steadiness and justice of those who spoke, the abscence of panic and exaggeration the quiet insistence on legal processes as opposed to trial by suspicion. McCarthyism so repelled the English that they take special care not to be infected by it.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

There is the world of ideas and there is the world of practice; the French are often for suppressing the one and the English the other; but neither is to be suppressed.

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